Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
Zechariah 1:5 - English Standard Version 2016 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? American Standard Version (1901) Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? Common English Bible So where are your ancestors? Do the prophets live forever? Catholic Public Domain Version Your fathers, where are they? And will the prophets live unceasingly? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always? |
Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
“Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.