48 Bible Verses about Family Death
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Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up children unto his brother.
If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
And Isaac breathed his last, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Neither shall men break bread for those in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Now there were with us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no child, left his wife unto his brother:
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead:
And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no children.
And Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in unto your houses to slay you.
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
And that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
And the second took her, and died, neither left he any children: and the third likewise.
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, } Thus says the LORD, { Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies: because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shall you put evil away from among you.
I call heaven and earth as witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live:
For I have five brothers; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Remember that Jesus Christ, descended from David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
For thus says the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.
There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
When he heard that Jesus came out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he dies, there shall no blood be shed for him.