48 Bible Verses about Family Death

saying, "Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and {father} descendants for his brother.

"When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a {man of another family}; her brother-in-law {shall have sex with her}, and he shall take her {to himself} as wife, and he shall perform his duty as brother-in-law [with respect to] her.

because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.

who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures,

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"

And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.

And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

So Saul died. And his three sons and all his house died together.

On the road of righteousness is life, and [on] the way of the path, [may there be] no death.

And they will not break bread for [the] mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of [the] dead. And they will not give drink to them, [the] cup of desolation, for their fathers, or for their mothers.

What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah

Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died [after] getting married, and [because he] did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother.

and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who [is] behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal.

And Joshua said, "Why did you bring us trouble? Yahweh will bring you trouble on this day." And all Israel stoned them [with] stones; and they burned them with fire [after] they stoned them with stones.

The last enemy to be abolished [is] death.

But [we] ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

And [when he] heard [it], Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

For that [death] he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that [life] he lives, he lives to God.

There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And [when he] died, he did not leave descendants.

And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Jehoash his father, in Ophrah [of] the Abiezrites.

For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike [you].

Now [after] Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

who delivered us from so great [a risk] of death, and will deliver [us], in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver [us] again,

and you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all that belongs to them; you will deliver our lives from death."

And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise.

So Saul died, and his three sons, {his armor bearer}, [and] all his men together that [same] day.

But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!"

{And} in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who [was] in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal.

For if we have become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be [identified with him in the likeness] of [his] resurrection,

In those days Hezekiah became {deathly ill}, and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Command your house, for you [are about] to die; you will not recover.'"

and [then] they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot} [in] the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,

for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!'

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David according to my gospel,

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection.

For thus says Yahweh, "You must not enter [the] house of [the] funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," {declares} Yahweh, "the loyal love and the compassion.

My enemies speak evil about me, "When will he die and his name perish?"

The blood avenger himself will put the killer to death; he must put him to death when meeting him.

There is a way [that seems] upright {to} a man, but its end [is] the way of death.

This man, [when he] heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

" 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him.