14 occurrences

'Old' in the Bible

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the Lord;I am tired of restraining it.“[I will] pour it out on the children in the streetAnd on the young men gathered together;For both the husband and wife shall be taken,The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

Verse ConceptsYoung People SufferingJudgement On Old PeopleGod Has AngerTired In Activitywrathtiredventing

Thus says the Lord,“Stand by the roads and look; ask for the ancient paths,Where the good way is; then walk in it,And you will find rest for your souls.But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

Verse ConceptsGospel, Requirements OfGuidance, Need For God'sGod's WaysRest, SpiritualRestlessnessRejection Of God's CallObstinacy Against GodPaths Of RighteousnessOld ThingsLearning The Right WayGod Giving RestHighwaysPaths

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers [to live in] forever and ever.

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The Land

Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersPotterPottery

saying, ‘Turn now everyone from his evil way and the evil of your actions [that you may not forfeit the right to] live in the land that the Lord has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofEternal PossessionTurning From EvilRefusing To HearGod Gave The Landimprovement

The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of disaster and of virulent disease.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsPlaguesProphesyingGod Speaking Of Old

“Thus says the Lord,‘Behold (hear this), I will restore the fortunes of the tents of JacobAnd have mercy on his dwelling places;The city will be rebuilt on its [old, mound-like] ruin,And the palace will stand on its rightful place.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfJacob, The PatriarchArchaeologyRebuilding JerusalemEzekiel InvasionRebirth Of IsraelLand Permanently Restored To Israelrebuilding

“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,And the young men and old, together,For I will turn their mourning into joyAnd will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsMourning Turned To JoyDancingSorrowRestored JoyGod Will ComfortFinding Comfort In God

So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the palace of the king to a place under the storeroom and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPutting Things Down

Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your armpits, then place the ropes under the padding”; and Jeremiah did so.

I will put them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants. Afterward Egypt will be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards EgyptInhabitationDepression

With you I shatter man and woman,With you I shatter old man and youth,With you I shatter young man and virgin,

Verse ConceptsDestroying Chariots

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of Kings

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