10 Bible Verses about Old Age, Disabilities
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It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.
Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."
Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
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