Zechariah 8:4

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.

“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

including Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,