1 Chronicles 29:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Cross References

Genesis 21:34

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

Genesis 23:4

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

Genesis 28:4

And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

Genesis 36:7

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

1 Chronicles 29:16

O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

Job 14:10

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

Psalm 119:19

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 39:12

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Psalm 39:13

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

Psalm 90:9

For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Leviticus 25:23

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

James 4:14

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

1 Peter 2:11

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;