28 Bible Verses about Middle Age
Most Relevant Verses
Every man being counted in the census who is twenty years old or older is to pay me this amount.
This amounted to one-fifth of an ounce per person, for everyone counted who was at least twenty years old. There were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty people.
Take a census of the entire congregation of Israel by households. List those who are at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty. Moses and the priest Eleazar spoke to the Israelites on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said: Take a census of those at least twenty years old, as Jehovah commanded Moses. These are the Israelites who came from Egypt:
These were the descendants of Levi by their families, the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more who served in the Temple of Jehovah.
They were to distribute offerings to the priests who were enrolled by families and to the Levites who were at least twenty years old. Distribution was based on the way they served in their divisions.
The second year and third month of their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, took charge of the construction. Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and the Levites, of twenty years or older, were responsible for overseeing the work of the house of Jehovah.
Register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are qualified to serve at the tent of meeting.
This is according to the official standard: adult male, twenty to sixty years old: fifty pieces of silver, adult female: thirty pieces of silver, young male, five to twenty years old: twenty pieces of silver, young female: ten pieces of silver, infant male under five: five pieces of silver, infant female: three pieces of silver, male above sixty years of age: fifteen pieces of silver, female above sixty: ten pieces of silver. If it is a woman, give twelve ounces. For a boy from five to twenty years old, give eight ounces and for a girl give four ounces.read more.
For a boy from one month to five years old, give two ounces of silver and for a girl give about one ounce. For a man sixty years or over, give six ounces and for a woman give four ounces.
The Israelites registered by households. The grand total of men who were at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty
Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now I am this day eighty-five years old.
Saul responded to David: You cannot fight this Philistine. You are just a boy. He has been a warrior since he was your age.
You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others.
He stored large supplies of food in the cities of Judah and an army of professional soldiers served him in Jerusalem.
David said: My son Solomon is young and inexperienced. The house to be built for Jehovah should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it. So David made extensive preparations before his death.
King David announced to the entire assembly: God has chosen my son Solomon. He is however young and lacks experience. The work to be done is enormous, because this is not a palace for people but a Temple for Jehovah God.
I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man without understanding.
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown (mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.
How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who come to nothing (are doomed to destruction)?
We have many things to say about him and it is hard to explain it to you, for you are dull of hearing (slow to learn). At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food. Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.read more.
But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.
Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Listen my sons to what your father teaches you. Pay attention and gain understanding. I give you good instruction. Do not abandon my Law! I was my father's son, tender and the only son to my mother.read more.
Father taught me. He said: Remember my words in your heart. Obey my commandments and live.
The child grew and became spiritually strong. He lived in the deserts till the time came to show himself to Israel.
The child Samuel grew both in stature and in goodness with Jehovah and also with men.
The child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom and was blessed by God.
From the age of twenty-five each Levite shall perform his duties in the tent of my presence,
Register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are qualified to work at the tent of meeting.
According to the last instructions of David, the Levites were counted from those twenty years old or more.