And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Numbers 31:2 - King James 2000 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered unto your people. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your [departed] people. American Standard Version (1901) Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. Common English Bible Take just reparations for the Israelites from the Midianites. Afterward you will join your ancestors. Catholic Public Domain Version "First, avenge the sons of Israel from the Midianites, and then you shall be gathered to your people." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites: and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people. |
And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years: and he breathed his last and died; and was gathered unto his people.
Then Abraham died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies:
God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered unto your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.
And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption:
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.
For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.
To me belongs vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
That no man transgress and wrong his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who slew many of us.
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.