'Old' in the Bible
Now King David was old, advanced in years; they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.
So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Now the king was very old and weak, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.
For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not completely devoted to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served and advised his father Solomon while he was still alive and said, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
But he ignored the advice which the elders gave him and consulted the young men who grew up with him and served him.
The king answered the people harshly and ignored the advice which the elders had given him,
Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him everything that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; they also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
And there were men passing by, and they saw the body thrown in the road, and the lion standing beside the body. So they came and told about it in the city [of Bethel] where the old prophet lived.
Then the prophet picked up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came into the city (Bethel) of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.
Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name (Presence). His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Now as for the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, everything that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But during the time of his old age he had a foot disease.
Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him. And he repaired and rebuilt the [old] altar of the Lord that had been torn down [by Jezebel].
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Ancient (98 instances)
- Elder (43 instances)
- Eldest (29 instances)
- Former (176 instances)
- Old (595 instances)
- Older (92 instances)
- Previous (37 instances)
- Sometime (23 instances)
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Zaqen
Qadmowniy
'ethmowl
Bath
Labiy'
`owlam
Qedem
Ri'shown
Rachowq
Sh@liyshiy
Shalash
Shaneh (in pl. only),