Gates : Of Death

• Punishment

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty Of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

• Punishment

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy Of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy Of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

And if a man have committed a sin worthy Of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy Of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness Of death is past.

When the waves Of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares Of death prevented me;

• Punishment

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy Of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

Let darkness and the shadow Of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow Of death;

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow Of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

• Wisdom

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow Of death.

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow Of death;

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn Of death shall devour his strength.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow Of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow Of death.

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow Of death.

There is no darkness, nor shadow Of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

• Gates

Have the gates Of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow Of death?

He hath also prepared for him the instruments Of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

• Gates

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates Of death:

The sorrows Of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares Of death prevented me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust Of death.

• Exemplified
• Assurance

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow Of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow Of death.

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors Of death are fallen upon me.

• Iron

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow Of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow Of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates Of death.

The sorrows Of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers Of death.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares Of death.

• Self-delusion

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways Of death.

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares Of death.

The wrath of a king is as messengers Of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways Of death.

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day Of death than the day of one's birth.

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day Of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

• Darkness

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow Of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow Of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

• Darkness

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow Of death, and make it gross darkness.

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way Of death.

• Seven

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow Of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

• Darkness

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow Of death light is sprung up.

• Church

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste Of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty Of death.

• Jairus
• Parents

And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point Of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste Of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

• Falsehood
• Slander

Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty Of death.

• Darkness

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow Of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste Of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy Of death is done unto him.

And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause Of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.

• Intercession

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point Of death.

• Slander

Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste Of death.

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains Of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

And though they found no cause Of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy Of death or of bonds.

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy Of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy Of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy Of death or of bonds.

Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause Of death in me.

• Character

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy Of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

The sting Of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

But we had the sentence Of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

To the one we are the savour Of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

But if the ministration Of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering Of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

• Power

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power Of death, that is, the devil;

And deliver them who through fear Of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason Of death:

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means Of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and Of death.