Thematic Bible: The Death of saints


Thematic Bible






I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.”

“Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the Lord your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed.








and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,

“There the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.


When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites would invade the land in the spring of the year.


“Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.”’” So they brought back word to the king.






But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. read more.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.




So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.








Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.


When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.


After Moses had stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on the mountain top. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.




Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright,
And let my end be like his!”


Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.


It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.




He enters into peace;
They rest in their beds,
Each one who walked in his upright way.






But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.






And it happened at that time that she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upper room.


“Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace,
According to Your word;


“If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my struggle I will wait
Until my change comes.