Zechariah 1:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Where are your ancestors now? Not even prophets live for ever.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Some time before the death of King Jehoash, Elisha the prophet was very sick and about to die. Jehoash went in and stood beside him, crying. He said, “Master, what will Israel's chariots and cavalry be able to do without you?”

2 Kings 13:20

Elisha died and was buried. Every year in the spring, Moab's leaders sent raiding parties into Israel.

Psalm 90:10

We can expect seventy years, or perhaps eighty, if we are healthy, but even our best years bring trouble and sorrow. Suddenly our time is up, and we disappear.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

People come, and people go, but still the world never changes.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

You will be afraid to climb up a hill or walk down a road. Your hair will turn as white as almond blossoms. You will feel lifeless and drag along like an old grasshopper. We each go to our eternal home, and the streets are filled with those who mourn.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

So our bodies return to the earth, and the life-giving breath returns to God.

Jeremiah 36:28

to get another scroll and write down everything that had been on the first one.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead, and we are left to pay for their sins.

John 8:52

Then the people said, “Now we are sure that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets. How can you say that no one who obeys your words will ever die?

Acts 13:36

When David was alive, he obeyed God. Then after he died, he was buried in the family grave, and his body decayed.

Hebrews 9:27

We die only once, and then we are judged.

1 Samuel 25:1

Samuel died, and people from all over Israel gathered to mourn for him when he was buried at his home in Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved his camp to Paran Desert.