15 Now as for you, (A)you shall [a]go (B)to your fathers in peace; (C)you shall be buried at a good old age.

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  1. Genesis 15:15 Die and join your ancestors

26 (A)You shall come to the grave at a full age,
As a sheaf of grain ripens in its season.

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Abraham’s Death and Burial

This is the sum of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. Then Abraham breathed his last and (A)died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and (B)was gathered to his people. And (C)his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of (D)Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

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28 “Surely 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 calamity which I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.

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13 And when you have seen it, you also (A)shall [a]be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.

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  1. Numbers 27:13 Die and join your ancestors

36 “For David, after he had served [a]his own generation by the will of God, (A)fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and [b]saw corruption;

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  1. Acts 13:36 in his
  2. Acts 13:36 underwent decay

13 “But you, go your way till the end; (A)for you shall rest, (B)and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”

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17 So Job died, old and (A)full of days.

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28 So he (A)died in a good old age, (B)full of days and riches and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

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10 When all that generation had [a]been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who (A)did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

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  1. Judges 2:10 Died and joined their ancestors

Jacob’s Death and Burial

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

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24 “Aaron shall [a]be (A)gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.

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  1. Numbers 20:24 Die and join his ancestors

29 So Isaac breathed his last and died, and (A)was [a]gathered to his people, being old and full of days. And (B)his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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  1. Genesis 35:29 Joined his ancestors

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

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If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or (A)indeed he has no burial, I say that (B)a [a]stillborn child is better than he—

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage

37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright;
For the future of that man is peace.

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The Divisions of the Levites

23 So when David was old and full of days, he made his son (A)Solomon king over Israel.

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13 For (A)his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham (B)bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.

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31 (A)There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, (B)there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.

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19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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(A)“I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. (B)Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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The Heavenly Hope

13 These all died in faith, (A)not having received the (B)promises, but (C)having seen them afar off [a]were assured of them, embraced them and (D)confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things (E)declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly if they had called to mind (F)that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed (G)to be called their God, for He has (H)prepared a city for them.

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  1. Hebrews 11:13 NU, M omit were assured of them

Israel’s Futile Idolatry

57 The righteous perishes,
And no man takes it to heart;
(A)Merciful men are taken away,
(B)While no one considers
That the righteous is taken away from [a]evil.
He shall enter into peace;
They shall rest in (C)their beds,
Each one walking in his uprightness.

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  1. Isaiah 57:1 Lit. the face of evil

God’s Infallible Purpose in Christ

13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, (A)He swore by Himself, 14 saying, (B)“Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the (C)promise. 16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and (D)an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to (E)the heirs of promise (F)the [a]immutability of His counsel, [b]confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two [c]immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to (G)lie, we [d]might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope (H)set before us.

19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, (I)and which enters the Presence behind the veil,

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  1. Hebrews 6:17 unchangeableness of His purpose
  2. Hebrews 6:17 guaranteed
  3. Hebrews 6:18 unchangeable
  4. Hebrews 6:18 M omits might

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