Ecclesiastes 12:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Avraham answered, *See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.*

Job 20:11

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.*

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

Psalm 146:4

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Psalm 31:6

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man to destruction, saying, *Return, you children of men.*

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Tzidkiyahu the king swore secretly to Yirmeyahu, saying, As the LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle. The word of the LORD concerning Yisra'el. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

Numbers 27:16

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Luke 23:46

Yeshua, crying with a loud voice, said, *Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!* Having said this, he breathed his last.

Acts 7:59

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, *Lord Yeshua, receive my Spirit!*

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?