Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
The gates
The shadow
Bible References
The gates
Psalm 9:13
Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
Psalm 107:18
They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
Psalm 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
The shadow
Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Job 12:22
Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
Psalm 107:10
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.