10 Bible Verses about Old Age, Disabilities
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Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”
Now the eyes of Israel were so dim from age that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not 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, are they not 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, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing. Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?’
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.
So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi answered, “Truly she has no son and her husband is old.”
Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”
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