Genesis 15:15

Yahweh's Covenant With Abram

¹⁴ And also I will judge that nation whom they shall serve. And afterward they shall come out with great substance. ¹⁵ And you shall go to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Die in Peace

Good Old Age

Job 5:26

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a visitor with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 23:19

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave at the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 25:7-9

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which he lived: a hundred seventy-five years.

Genesis 35:29

And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

Genesis 49:29

And he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49:31

They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And I buried Leah there;

Genesis 50:13

For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Numbers 20:24

Aaron shall be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the Waters of Strife.

Numbers 27:13

And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people as Aaron your brother was gathered.

Judges 2:10

And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know Jehovah, nor even the works which He had done for Israel.

1 Chronicles 23:1

And David was old and full of days, and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:28

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 34:28

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, nor shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place and upon its people. And they brought the king word again.

Job 42:17

And Job died, being old and full of days.

Psalm 37:37

Watch the perfect and behold the upright one; for the end of that man is peace.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 57:1-2

The righteous one perishes, and no one lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

At that time, says Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

Daniel 12:13

But you go on to the end, for you shall rest and stand in your lot 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?" God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Acts 13:36

For after he had served his own generation by the will of God, David fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.

Hebrews 6:13-19

For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

Hebrews 11:13-16

These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.