10 occurrences

'Old' in the Bible

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesPeople From Far AwayNations Attacking Israel

For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

Verse ConceptsYoung People SufferingJudgement On Old PeopleGod Has AngerTired In Activitywrathtiredventing

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go 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

For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

Verse ConceptsForgettingStumblingPaths Of RighteousnessOld ThingsIncense Offered AmissEvil WaysHighwaysPaths

And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.

Verse ConceptsHistory Of NationsChildren Blessedoppression

Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad 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 house of the king, to the place where the clothing was kept, and got from there old clothing and bits of old cloth, and let them down by cords into the water-hole where Jeremiah was.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPutting Things Down

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put these bits of old cloth under your arms under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;

Verse ConceptsDestroying Chariots

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was king for 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

Bible Theasaurus

Ancient (98 instances)
Elder (43 instances)
Eldest (29 instances)
Former (176 instances)
Older (92 instances)
Previous (37 instances)
Sometime (23 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain