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76 Bible Verses about Ashes To Ashes Dust To Dust

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 18:27 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Job 2:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.

Daniel 9:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Job 30:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 42:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Esther 4:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

2 Samuel 13:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

Numbers 19:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.

Isaiah 61:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

Hebrews 9:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Job 34:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Job 13:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Esther 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Matthew 11:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Isaiah 44:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

1 Kings 20:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

Numbers 19:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

Exodus 9:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Malachi 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.

Isaiah 61:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers; ...

Isaiah 26:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Psalm 103:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 90:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”

Job 2:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. And the Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.” ...

Nehemiah 11:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

Nehemiah 11:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.

Nehemiah 7:61 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

Nehemiah 7:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42.

Nehemiah 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.

Ezra 2:59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers' houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

2 Chronicles 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

2 Chronicles 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

1 Chronicles 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned.

1 Chronicles 2:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon fathered Beth-zur.

2 Kings 23:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

1 Kings 20:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.

1 Kings 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

1 Kings 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”

1 Samuel 17:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

Judges 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.

Judges 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,

Joshua 19:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.

Joshua 19:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath,

Joshua 19:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, Beth-pazzez.

Joshua 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities with their villages;

Joshua 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,

Joshua 15:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,

Joshua 15:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,

Joshua 15:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

Joshua 15:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

Joshua 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

Joshua 10:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

Deuteronomy 21:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.

Leviticus 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

Leviticus 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar.

Exodus 27:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Exodus 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh.

Genesis 16:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 11:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ...

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

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