14 Bible Verses about Death Approaching

Isaac said, “See here, I am old; I do not know when I may die.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

“I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, on the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.

When the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to [be set up for] camp, the Levites shall set it up. But the layman (non-Levite) who approaches the tabernacle shall be put to death.

So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Now the king was very old and weak, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

When David reached old age, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, a time is coming and is [here] now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Jesus wept.

When David’s time to die approached, he gave instructions to Solomon his son, saying,

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Now when the time was approaching for Him to be taken up [to heaven], He was determined to go to Jerusalem [to fulfill His purpose].

Do not be surprised at this; for a time is coming when all those who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

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

For You have rescued my life from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from stumbling and falling.