Afterward, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 15:15 - Tree of Life Version But you, you will come to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old (hoary) age. American Standard Version (1901) But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Common English Bible As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life. Catholic Public Domain Version But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. |
Afterward, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”
Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. So his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
When I lie down with my fathers, you must carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” So he said, “I myself will do according to your word.”
Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, and there I buried Leah.
His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field that Abraham bought as a property for burial from Ephron the Hittite, next to Mamre.
When David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
He died at a good old age, full of days, riches and honor, and his son Solomon became king in his place.
‘Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you will be buried in your grave in shalom. Your eyes will not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants.’” So they brought her word back to the king.
You will come to the grave in vigor, like sheaves of grain in its season.
Notice the man of integrity and watch the upright— for the man of shalom has a future.
Though during his life he congratulates himself, and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.
But you, go your way till the end. You will rest and then at the end of days you will arise to receive your portion.”
“Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land, which I have given to Bnei-Yisrael, because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered.
‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living!”
For after David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he went to sleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.
Adonai said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon Me and break My covenant that I cut with them.
But when all that generation were gathered to their fathers, there arose another generation after them that did not experience Adonai or the work that He had done for Israel.