Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Let the king
General references
Bible References
Let the king
1 Kings 1:31
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever.”
Daniel 2:4
Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”
Daniel 3:9
They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: “O king, live forever!
Daniel 5:10
The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.
Daniel 6:6
Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!
The city
Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”
Psalm 102:14 Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.
And feel pity for her dust.
Psalm 137:6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do notexalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
If I do not remember you,
If I do not
Above my chief joy.
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
Thelaw is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from the Lord.
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The
Also, her prophets find
The place
2 Chronicles 21:20
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 28:27 So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 32:33
So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper section of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh became king in his place.
General references
Genesis 47:30
but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”
Psalm 102:14 Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.
And feel pity for her dust.