Ecclesiastes 12:7

Tree of Life Version

Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

Then Adonai Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”

Job 20:11

His bones were full of his youthful vigor but it will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 7:21

Why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and You will search for me, but I will be gone.”

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our frame. He remembers that we are but dust.

Psalm 104:29

But when You hide Your face— they are dismayed. You take away their breath— they perish, and return to their dust.

Psalm 146:4

His breath departs, he returns to his dust. In that very day his plans perish.

Psalm 31:6

Into Your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.

Psalm 90:3

You turn mankind back to dust, saying, “Return, children of Adam!”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would grow weak before Me, the breath of those whom I made.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying: “As Adonai lives, that gave us life, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men seeking your life.”

Daniel 12:2

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of Adonai concerning Israel. A declaration of Adonai, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

But they fell on their faces and cried out, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, if one man sins, will you be angry with the entire community?”

Numbers 27:16

“May Adonai, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community

Luke 23:46

And Yeshua, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I entrust My spirit.’” When He had said this, He breathed His last.

Acts 7:59

They went on stoning Stephen as he was calling out, “Lord Yeshua, receive my spirit!”

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of the firstborn who are written in a scroll in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous ones made perfect,

Hebrews 12:9

Besides, we are used to having human fathers as instructors—and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?