Genesis 15:15

Yahweh's Covenant With Abram

¹⁴ However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions. ¹⁵ But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. ¹⁶ In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

Die in Peace

Good Old Age

Job 5:26

You will approach the grave in full vigor,
as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Genesis 23:19

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 25:7-9

This is the length of Abraham’s life: 175 years.

Genesis 35:29

He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 49:29

Then he commanded them: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 49:31

Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there, Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there, and I buried Leah there.

Genesis 50:13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

Numbers 20:24

“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land I have given the Israelites, because you both rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:13

After you have seen it, you will also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.

Judges 2:10

That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord or the works He had done for Israel.

1 Chronicles 23:1

When David was old and full of days, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:28

He died at a ripe old age, full of days, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 34:28

‘I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.’”

Then they reported to the king.

Job 42:17

Then Job died, old and full of days.

Psalm 37:37

Watch the blameless and observe the upright,
for the man of peace will have a future.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 57:1-2

The righteous one perishes,
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence of evil.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

“At that time”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of her officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves.

Daniel 12:13

But as for you, go on your way to the end; you will rest, then rise to your destiny at the end of the days.”

Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Acts 13:36

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

Hebrews 6:13-19

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself:

Hebrews 11:13-16

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.