Thematic Bible
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Long life » Examples of vigorous » Gray hairs, an indication of
Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.
Strangers have devoured his strength,
Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know.
The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.
And now, here is the king walking before you. As for me, I am old and gray, and here are my sons with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.
“Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged,
Older than your father.
The glory of young men is their [physical] strength,
And the honor of aged men is their gray head [representing wisdom and experience].
Old age » Examples of vigorous » Gray hairs, an indication of
Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.
Strangers have devoured his strength,
Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know.
The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.
And now, here is the king walking before you. As for me, I am old and gray, and here are my sons with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.
“Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged,
Older than your father.
The glory of young men is their [physical] strength,
And the honor of aged men is their gray head [representing wisdom and experience].
Strength » Physical
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies and with what you may be bound and subdued.”
The Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he tore the lion apart as one tears apart a young goat, and he had nothing at all in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he stretched out with all his might [collapsing the support pillars], and the house fell on the lords and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.
The glory of young men is their [physical] strength,
And the honor of aged men is their gray head [representing wisdom and experience].
But Samson lay [resting] until midnight, then at midnight he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door-posts, and pulled them up, [security] bar and all, and he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the hill which is opposite Hebron.
I went out after it and attacked it and rescued the lamb from its mouth; and when it rose up against me, I seized it by its whiskers and struck and killed it.