Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Gray hairs, an indication of
When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Strangers have devoured his strength, yet he regardeth it not: he waxeth full of gray hairs, yet will he not know it.
Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
And see, your king walketh before you. But I am old and grayheaded: and behold my sons are with you and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.
The strength of young men is their worship; and a grey head, is a honour unto the aged.
Old age » Examples of vigorous » Gray hairs, an indication of
When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Strangers have devoured his strength, yet he regardeth it not: he waxeth full of gray hairs, yet will he not know it.
Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
And see, your king walketh before you. But I am old and grayheaded: and behold my sons are with you and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.
The strength of young men is their worship; and a grey head, is a honour unto the aged.
Strength » Physical
And Delilah said to Samson, "Oh, tell me where thy great strength lieth, and if thou were bound wherewith men might constrain thee."
And the spirit of the LORD came upon him. And he tare him, as a man would rent a kid, and yet had nothing in his hand. Nevertheless he told not his father and mother what he had done.
and said, "My soul die with the Philistines," and bowed them with might. And the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were therein. And so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they which he slew in his life.
The strength of young men is their worship; and a grey head, is a honour unto the aged.
And Samson took his rest till midnight, and arose at midnight took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two side posts, and rent them off, bars and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that lieth before Hebron.
And I went out after him and smote him, and took it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him.