Zechariah 1:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

2 Kings 13:20

And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.

Psalm 90:10

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 36:28

Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

John 8:52

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

Acts 13:36

Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

1 Samuel 25:1

And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.