Ecclesiastes 12:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Psalms 146:4
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Ecclesiastes 3:20-21
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. …
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

Topics

Age, Old Aged Corruption Creation Dead (people)Death Dying God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Here is, I. A call to young people to think of God, and mind their duty to him, when they are young: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. This is, 1. The royal preacher’s application of his sermon concerning the vanity of the world and every thing in it. “You that are young flatter yourselves with expectations of great things from it, but believe those that have tried it; it yields n…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. dust--the dust-formed body. spirit--surviving the body; implying its immortality (Ec 3:11).