2 Samuel 12:23

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

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.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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.

Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,