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Zechariah 1:5

New Living Translation

“Where are your ancestors now? They and the prophets are long dead.

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When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” he cried.

Then Elisha died and was buried. Groups of Moabite raiders used to invade the land each spring.

Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.

Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes.

Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.

For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

“Get another scroll, and write everything again just as you did on the scroll King Jehoiakim burned.

Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!

The people said, “Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Even Abraham and the prophets died, but you say, ‘Anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!’

This is not a reference to David, for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,

Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered for his funeral. They buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David moved down to the wilderness of Maon.




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