Genesis 15:15

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers 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 Mach-pelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:4

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

Genesis 35:29

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

Genesis 47:30

but let me lie with my fathers; carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.”

Genesis 49:29

Then he charged them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49:31

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah—

Genesis 50:13

for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burying place.

1 Chronicles 23:1

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

1 Chronicles 29:28

Then he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 34:28

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’ ” And they brought back word to the king.

Job 41:32

Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Job 42:17

And Job died, an old man, 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 man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.

Psalm 49:19

he will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never more see the light.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

Daniel 12:13

But go your way till the end; and you shall rest, and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”

Numbers 20:24

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:13

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

Matthew 22:32

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

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had served the counsel of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers; then this people will rise and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Judges 2:10

And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel.