Joshua 24:29

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,

“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

“But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”