'Die' in the Bible

They pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so we won’t die! For we have added to all our sins the evil of requesting a king for ourselves.”

As surely as the Lord lives who saves Israel, even if it is because of my son Jonathan, he must die!” Not one of the troops answered him.

Saul commanded him, “Tell me what you did.”Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the end of the staff I was carrying. I am ready to die!”

Saul declared to him, “May God punish me and do so severely if you do not die, Jonathan!”

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? No, as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he worked with God’s help today.” So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.

Jonathan said to him, “No, you won’t die. Listen, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This can’t be true.”

If I continue to live, treat me with the Lord’s faithful love, but if I die,

Every day Jesse’s son lives on earth you and your kingship are not secure. Now send for him and bring him to me—he deserves to die.”

But the king said, “You will die, Ahimelech—you and your father’s whole family!”

David added, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down: either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

What you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, all of you deserve to die since you didn’t protect your lord, the Lord’s anointed. Now look around; where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”

and the king sang a lament for Abner:Should Abner die as a fool dies?

David was infuriated with the man and said to Nathan: “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

David responded to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”Then Nathan replied to David, “The Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.

However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”

We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; He would devise plans so that the one banished from Him does not remain banished.

“You must not go!” the people pleaded. “If we have to flee, they will not pay any attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not pay any attention to us because you are worth 10,000 of us. Therefore, it is better if you support us from the city.”

So the king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” Then the king gave him his oath.

Please let your servant return so that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him what seems good to you.”

As the time approached for David to die, he instructed his son Solomon,

The king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord God in the presence of my father David and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

So Benaiah went to the tabernacle and said to Joab, “This is what the king says: ‘Come out!’”But Joab said, “No, for I will die here.”So Benaiah took a message back to the king, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

On the day you do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, ‘On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will obey.’

After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

“As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked—only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: ‘You will not get up from your sickbed—you will certainly die.’” Then Elijah left.

They replied, “A man came to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and declare to him: This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not get up from your sickbed—you will certainly die.’”

Then Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel for you to inquire of His will?—you will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’”

Four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die?

If we say, ‘Let’s go into the city,’ we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s go to the Arameans’ camp. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

But one of his servants responded, “Please, let messengers take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their fate is like the entire Israelite community who will die, so let’s send them and see.”

Elisha told him, “Go say to him, ‘You are sure to recover.’ But the Lord has shown me that he is sure to die.”

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying: The Lord will deliver us.

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

However, he did not put their children to death, because—as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded—“Fathers must not die because of children, and children must not die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”

His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Why was I not stillborn;why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

Are their tent cords not pulled up?They die without wisdom. >

But the sight of the wicked will fail.Their way of escape will be cut off,and their only hope is their last breath.

No doubt you are the people,and wisdom will die with you!

Can anyone indict me?If so, I will be silent and die.

There is hope for a tree:If it is cut down, it will sprout again,and its shoots will not die.

If its roots grow old in the groundand its stump starts to die in the soil,

I will never affirm that you are right.I will maintain my integrity until I die.

So I thought: I will die in my own nestand multiply my days as the sand.

They die suddenly in the middle of the night;people shudder, then pass away.Even the mighty are removed without effort.

But if they do not obey,they will cross the river of deathand die without knowledge.

They die in their youth;their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

Turn Your angry gaze from meso that I may be cheered upbefore I die and am gone.”

My enemies speak maliciously about me:“When will he die and be forgotten?”

For one can see that wise men die;foolish and stupid men also pass away.Then they leave their wealth to others.

They have an easy time until they die,and their bodies are well fed.

Let the groans of the prisoners reach You;according to Your great power,preserve those condemned to die.

However, you will die like menand fall like any other ruler.”

to hear a prisoner’s groaning,to set free those condemned to die,

When You hide Your face,they are terrified;when You take away their breath,they die and return to the dust.

He turned their water into bloodand caused their fish to die.

I will not die, but I will liveand proclaim what the Lord has done.

But my eyes look to You, Lord God.I seek refuge in You; do not let me die.

When his breath leaves him,he returns to the ground;on that day his plans die.

He will die because there is no discipline,and be lost because of his great stupidity.

The lips of the righteous feed many,but fools die for lack of sense.

When the righteous thrive, a city rejoices,and when the wicked die, there is joyful shouting.

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path;the one who hates correction will die.

The one who keeps commands preserves himself;one who disregards his ways will die.

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

Two things I ask of You;don’t deny them to me before I die:

a time to give birth and a time to die;a time to plant and a time to uproot;

Don’t be excessively wicked, and don’t be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.

Whoever is found will be stabbed,and whoever is caught will die by the sword.

The channels will stink;they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.Reed and rush will die.

The noisy city, the jubilant town,is filled with revelry.Your dead did not die by the sword;they were not killed in battle.

But look: joy and gladness,butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,eating of meat, and drinking of wine—“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord.

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is My hand too short to redeem?Or do I have no power to deliver?Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

Look up to the heavens,and look at the earth beneath;for the heavens will vanish like smoke,the earth will wear out like a garment,and its inhabitants will die like gnats.But My salvation will last forever,and My righteousness will never be shattered.

The prisoner is soon to be set free;he will not die and go to the Pit,and his food will not be lacking.

They hatch viper’s eggsand weave spider’s webs.Whoever eats their eggs will die;crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

In her, a nursing infant will no longer liveonly a few days,or an old man not live out his days.Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.

“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never go out, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth who want to take your life. They warn, “You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will certainly die at our hand.”

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: “I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.

They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the face of the earth. They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.

Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon. There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends that you prophesied falsely to.’”

I will strike the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a great plague.

Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and will retain his life like the spoils of war.

but he will die in the place where they deported him, never seeing this land again.”

I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land, where neither of you were born, and there you will both die.

He finished the address the Lord had commanded him to deliver to all the people. Then the priests, the prophets, and all the people took hold of him, yelling, “You must surely die!

Why should you and your people die by the sword, famine, or plague as the Lord has threatened against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to send you off the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”

Rather, each will die for his own wrongdoing. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.

“Yet hear the Lord’s word, Zedekiah, king of Judah. This is what the Lord says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;