Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Death

Beauty

General references

Bible References

Like

Psalm 44:11
Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Jeremiah 12:3
But thou, O LORD, know me. Thou see me, and try my heart toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Romans 8:36
Just as it is written, For thy sake we are killed the whole day long. We are considered as sheep of slaughter.

They

Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Death

Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.

Upright

Psalm 47:3
He subdues peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
Daniel 7:22
until the ancient of days came. And judgment was given to the sanctified of the Most High, and the time came that the sanctified possessed the kingdom.
Malachi 4:3
And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says LORD of hosts.
Luke 22:30
that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
1 Corinthians 6:2
Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?
Revelation 2:26
And he who overcomes, and he who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
Revelation 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them. And judgment was given to them and the souls of those who were beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image,

Morning

Psalm 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy [is] in the morning.
Hosea 6:3
And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

Their

Psalm 39:11
When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Job 4:21
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Beauty

Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

General references

Numbers 26:53
To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Proverbs 14:19
The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.