Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
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Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash 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 days of our life are seventy years, or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which King Jehoiakim of Judah has burned.
Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.
The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption;
And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment,
Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.