Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous [person] is a [source of] blessing,
But the name of the wicked will [be forgotten and] rot [like a corpse].

Psalm 112:6

He will never be shaken;
The righteous will be remembered forever.

Psalm 9:5-6

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

Psalm 109:13

Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness).

1 Kings 11:36

Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put My Name and Presence.

2 Kings 19:34

‘For I will protect this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

2 Chronicles 24:16

They buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good [things] in Israel and toward God and His house.

Job 18:17

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name on the street.

Job 27:23

“People will clap their hands at him [to mock and ridicule him]
And hiss him out of his place.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who abandon You will be shamed.
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

Mark 14:9

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, wherever the good news [regarding salvation] is proclaimed throughout the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

Luke 1:48

“For He has looked [with loving care] on the humble state of His maidservant;
For behold, from now on all generations will count me blessed and happy and favored by God!

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