'Age' in the Bible
But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.
She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.”
Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
He took his last breath and died at a ripe old age, old and contented, and he was gathered to his people.
These are the family records of Jacob.At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a robe of many colors for him.
They were seated before him in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.
and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
Now his eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought them to him, and he kissed and embraced them.
Joseph died at the age of 110. They embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
After these things, the Lord’s servant, Joshua son of Nun, died at the age of 110.
Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110.
Then Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. Indeed, your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
“‘Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestral family, so that none in your family will reach old age.
You will see distress in the place of worship, in spite of all that is good in Israel, and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.
Jeroboam’s wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed due to his age.
The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.
He died at a ripe old age, full of days, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon became king in his place.
I thought that age should speakand maturity should teach wisdom.
Don’t discard me in my old age;as my strength fails, do not abandon me.
They will still bear fruit in old age,healthy and green,
I will be the same until your old age,and I will bear you up when you turn gray.I have made you, and I will carry you;I will bear and save you.
Instead of your being deserted and hated,with no one passing through,I will make you an object of eternal pride,a joy from age to age.
“Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
yet he said to Daniel, “My lord the king assigned your food and drink. I’m afraid of what would happen if he saw your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age. You would endanger my life with the king.”
He stands and shakes the earth;He looks and startles the nations.The age-old mountains break apart;the ancient hills sink down.His pathways are ancient.
The Lord of Hosts says this: “Old men and women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of advanced age.