Genesis 15:15

Yahweh's Covenant With Abram

¹⁴ However, I will judge the nation that they serve, and later they will leave there with many possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you'll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course."

Die in Peace

Good Old Age

Job 5:26

You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.

Genesis 23:4

"I am an alien and an outsider among you. Give me a cemetery among you where I can bury my dead away from my presence."

Genesis 23:19

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave at the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 25:7-9

Abraham lived for 175 years,

Genesis 35:29

when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 49:29

In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: "I'm about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 49:31

It's where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, where Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and where I buried Leah.

Genesis 50:13

they carried him to the territory of Canaan and buried him in the cave in Machpelah field near Mamre that Abraham had purchased as a cemetery from Ephron the Hittite.

Numbers 20:24

"Aaron is to be gathered to his people, since he is not to enter the land that I'm about to give the Israelis. After all, you both rebelled against my command at the Meribah Springs.

Numbers 27:13

After you've seen it, you'll be taken to be with your people just as your brother Aaron was gathered to them,

Judges 2:10

After that whole generation had died, another generation grew up after them that was not acquainted with the LORD or with what he had done for Israel.

1 Chronicles 23:1

After David had reached old age, and had completed his reign, he set his son Solomon as king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:28

He died at a good old age, having lived a full life, replete with riches and honor, and with his son Solomon reigning in his place.

2 Chronicles 34:28

"Look! I'm going to take you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in your grave in peace so that you won't have to see all the evil that I'm going to bring to this place and to its inhabitants."'" So they all brought back this message to the king.

Job 42:17

Then Job died at an old age, having lived a full life.

Psalm 37:37

Observe the blameless! Take note of the upright! Indeed, the future of that man is peace.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

Isaiah 57:1-2

"Also the righteous are perishing, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from calamity.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

"At that time," declares the LORD, "the bones of the king of Judah, the bones of his officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

Daniel 12:13

Now as for you, keep on going until the end you'll rest and then rise to receive your reward at the end of the age.'"

Matthew 22:32

"I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

Acts 13:36

Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

Hebrews 6:13-19

For when God made his promise to Abraham, he swore an oath by himself, since he had no one greater to swear by.

Hebrews 11:13-16

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.