Genesis 15:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Cross References

Genesis 23:19

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 35:29

And Isaac breathed his last; he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 47:30

When I lie down with my ancestors, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.”

Genesis 49:29

Then he charged them, saying to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49:31

There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah.

Genesis 50:13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 23:1

When David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:28

He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon succeeded him.

2 Chronicles 34:28

I will gather you to your ancestors and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.’ ” They took the message back to the king.

Job 41:32

It leaves a shining wake behind it; one would think the deep to be white-haired.

Job 42:17

And Job died, old and full of days.

Job 5:26

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

Psalm 37:37

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.

Psalm 49:19

they will go to the company of their ancestors, who will never again see the light.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Daniel 12:13

But you, go your way, and rest; you shall rise for your reward at the end of the days.”

Numbers 20:24

“Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land that I have given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:13

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,

Matthew 22:32

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead but of the living.”

Acts 13:36

“For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you will lie down with your ancestors. Then this people will begin to prostitute themselves to the foreign gods in their midst, the gods of the land into which they are going; they will forsake me, breaking my covenant that I have made with them.

Judges 2:10

Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.