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Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came

and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 BSB

Ecclesiastes 12:7 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 18 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Daniel 12:2 (27 votes) and Ecclesiastes 3:20–21 (21 votes). 47 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 2 to James 2.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 12:7 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Daniel 12:227 votes

    And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

  2. Ecclesiastes 3:20–2121 votes

    All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

  3. Psalm 146:420 votes

    When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

  4. Genesis 3:1916 votes

    By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

  5. Job 34:14–1515 votes

    If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

  6. Zechariah 12:114 votes

    This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

  7. Isaiah 57:1613 votes

    For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.

  8. Genesis 2:712 votes

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

  9. Numbers 16:2210 votes

    But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

  10. Job 20:119 votes

    The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  11. Numbers 27:168 votes
  12. Psalm 90:37 votes
  13. Jeremiah 38:167 votes
  14. Genesis 18:276 votes
  15. Job 4:19–206 votes
  16. Hebrews 12:96 votes
  17. Job 7:215 votes
  18. Hebrews 12:235 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 12:7?

The 10 strongest of 47.