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
Upright
Morning
Their
Beauty
General references
Bible References
Like
Psalm 44:11
Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
Jeremiah 12:3
And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.
Romans 8:36
(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')
They
Job 17:13
If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Job 21:13
They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.
Job 30:23
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
Isaiah 38:10
I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
Death
Job 24:19
Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol those who have sinned.
Upright
Psalm 47:3
He leadeth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
Daniel 7:22
till that the Ancient of Days hath come, and judgment is given to the saints of the Most High, and the time hath come, and the saints have strengthened the kingdom.
Malachi 4:3
And ye have trodden down the wicked, For they are ashes under the soles of your feet, In the day that I am appointing, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
Luke 22:30
that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
1 Corinthians 6:2
have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?
Revelation 2:26
and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him 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 have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;
Morning
Psalm 30:5
For -- a moment is in His anger, Life is in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.
Hosea 6:3
And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
Their
Psalm 39:11
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.
Job 4:21
Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!
Beauty
Job 30:23
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
General references
Numbers 26:53
'To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names;
Proverbs 14:19
The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.