Verse 4

But he him selfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sat downe vnder a Iuniper tree, and desired for his soule that he might dye, and sayde: It is nowe enough O Lorde, take my soule, for I am not better then my fathers.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 11:15 : 15 If thou deale thus with me, kyll me I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, yt I see not my wretchednesse.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And when the sunne rose, God prepared a seruent east winde, and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionas that he fainted: and wished vnto his soule, that he might dye, and saide, It is better for me to dye, then to lyue.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 And nowe O Lorde, take I beseche thee my lyfe from me: for it is better for me to dye, then to lyue.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth. 15 Cursed be the man that brought my father the tidinges to make hym gald, saying, Thou hast begotten a sonne: 16 Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling. 17 Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her? 18 Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?
  • 1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 When he sawe that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beerseba in Iuda, and left his seruaunt there.
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 And it fortuned, that as they went walking and talking: beholde, there appeared a charet of fyre, and horses of fyre, & parted them both a sunder, and Elias went vp through the whorle winde into heauen.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes? 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures: 22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,
  • 1 Kgs 13:14 : 14 And went after the man of God, and founde him sytting vnder a tree, and he said vnto him: Art thou the man of God that camest from Iuda? And he sayde, I am.
  • Amos 6:2 : 2 Go you vnto Calneh, and see, and from thence go you to Hemath the great, then go downe to Gath of the Philistines: be they better then these kingdomes? or the border of their lande greater then your border?
  • Gen 21:15-16 : 15 And the water was spent in the bottell, and she cast the lad vnder some one of the trees: 16 And went, and sate on the other syde a great way, as it were a bowe shote of: for she sayd, I wyll not see the death of the chylde. And she sitting downe on the other side, lyft vp her voyce & wept.
  • Nah 3:8 : 8 Wilt thou count thy selfe better then Alexandria the great, that was scituate amonges the riuers, compassed round about with water, whose fortresse was the sea and had her wall from the sea?
  • Matt 6:26 : 26 Beholde the fowles of the ayre: For they sowe not, neither do they reape, nor cary into the barnes: yet your heauenly father feedeth them. Are ye not much better then they?
  • John 4:6 : 6 And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then beyng wery of his iourney, sate thus on the well. And it was about the sixt houre:
  • Rom 3:9 : 9 What then? Are we better then they? No, in no wise. For we haue alredy proued, howe that both Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinne.
  • Phil 1:21-24 : 21 For Christe is to me lyfe, and death is to me aduantage. 22 But if I lyue in the fleshe, this (is) the fruite of my labour, and what I shall chose, I wote not. 23 For I am in a strayte betwixt two, hauyng a desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which is much farre better. 24 Neuerthelesse, to abyde in ye fleshe, is more needefull for you.