2 Kings 22:20

World English Bible (2000)

'Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place.'"'" They brought back this message to the king.

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  • 1 Chr 17:11 : 11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  • Jer 22:10 : 10 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
  • Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him. 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 34:28 : 28 "Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants."'" They brought back word to the king.
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
  • Deut 31:16 : 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
  • 2 Kgs 23:29-30 : 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

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    26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "As touching the words which you have heard,

    27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you," says Yahweh.

    28 "Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants."'" They brought back word to the king.

    29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Gen 15:15
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    15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

  • Jer 34:5
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    5 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16 "Thus says Yahweh, 'Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18-19
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    18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Concerning the words which you have heard,

    19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,' says Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
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    22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water;" your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"

  • Jer 22:12
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    12 But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.

  • 1 Kgs 13:31
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    31 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

  • 1 Kgs 2:6
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    6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

  • Gen 47:30
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    30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
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    12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

  • Jer 38:26
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    26 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

  • 2 Chr 34:24
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    24 "Thus says Yahweh, 'Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

  • Gen 48:21
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    21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
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    1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 17:3
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    3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace."

  • 1 Chr 17:11
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    11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

  • 2 Sam 19:37
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    37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you."

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    31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

  • 2 Chr 35:24
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    24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

  • Jer 22:19
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    19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

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    29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

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    69%

    21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

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    33 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

  • Jer 22:10
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    10 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

  • Jer 42:22
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    22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.

  • Jer 8:1
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    1 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

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    14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

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    10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

  • Gen 49:29
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    29 He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

  • 2 Chr 24:16
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    16 They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

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    12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

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    1 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

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    22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

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    28 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

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