18 occurrences in 22 translations

'Live Forever' in the Bible

Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, and laid herself face down before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever."

and I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

“I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever.Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].

so that he may stay alive forever [and] not see the pit.

May he live forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.

Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years -- even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity -- even if he were to live forever -- I would say, "A stillborn child is better off than he is!"

Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!

Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spake and said, O king, live forever; let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed.

Then these commissioners and satraps agreed to approach the king and said to him, “King Darius, live forever!

But Judah will live forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

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