2714 verses about Death

It is thus with all flesh, from man to beast, And upon sinners sevenfold more.

Death, and bloodshed, and strife, and sword, Calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;

All things that are of the earth turn to the earth again: And all things that are of the waters return into the sea.

The sedge that grows upon every water and bank of a river Shall be plucked up before all grass.

My son, lead not a beggar’s life; Better it is to die than to beg.

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man that is at peace in his possessions, To the man that has nothing to distract him, and has prosperity in all things, And that still has strength to receive meat!

O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength, That is in extreme old age, and is distracted about all things, And is perverse, and has lost patience!

Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death; Remember those who have been before you, and that come after: This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh.

And why do you refuse, when it is the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether it be ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years, There is no inquisition of life in the grave.

The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish, And with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

If you⌃ be born, you⌃ shall be born to a curse; If you⌃ die, a curse shall be your portion.

All things that are of the earth shall go back to the earth: So the ungodly shall go from a curse to perdition.

The mourning of men is about their bodies: But the name of sinners being evil shall be blotted out.

A good life has its number of days; And a good name continueth forever.

And some there be, which have no memorial; Who are perished as though they had not been, And are become as though they had not been born; And their children after them.

Their bodies were buried in peace, And their name lives to all generations.

Also before the time of his long sleep He made protestations in the sight of the lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: And no man did accuse him.

And after he fell asleep he prophesied, And showed the king his end, And lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, To blot out the wickedness of the people.

Who did raise up a dead man from death, And from the place of the dead, by the word of the Most High:

Who brought down kings to destruction, And honorable men from their bed:

Nothing was too high for him; And when he was laid on sleep his body prophesied.

As in his life he did wonders, So in death were his works marvelous.

Out of the depth of the belly of the grave, And from an unclean tongue, And from lying words,

The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king. My soul drew near even to death, And my life was near to the grave beneath.

And I lifted up my supplication from the earth, And prayed for deliverance from death.

That we should eat every man the flesh of his own son, and every man the flesh of his own daughter.

open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:

And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.

that you are counted with those who go down into the grave?

they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

so they perished, because they had no wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.

They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

Likewise also their gods of wood, and overlaid with gold and with silver, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sits upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast forth into the dark.

O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless you⌃ the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever: for he has rescued us from hell, and saved us from the hand of death: he has delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame, even out of the midst of the fire has he delivered us.

Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I can’t escape your hands.

And it came to pass on the morrow, when the people assembled to her husband Joakim, the two elders came full of their wicked intent against Susanna to put her to death;

Then the assembly believed them, as those that were elders of the people and judges: so they condemned her to death.

you know that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.

Therefore when she was led away to be put to death, God raised up the holy spirit of a young youth, whose name was Daniel:

and according to the law of Moses they did to them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbor: and they put them to death, and the innocent blood was saved the same day.

and when you come in the morning, if you find not that Bel has eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaks falsely against us.

And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.

And he called his servants, which were honorable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive.

And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.

And they did all put diadems upon themselves after that he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years: and they multiplied evils in the earth.

and he made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt; and Ptolemy was put to shame before him, and fled; and many fell wounded to death.

And there came great mourning upon Israel, in every place where they were;

And whoever shall not do according to the word of the king, he shall die.

And wherever was found with any a book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death.

And the women that had circumcised their children they put to death according to the commandment.

And they hanged their babes about their necks, and destroyed their houses, and those who had circumcised them.

And they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died.

and he said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens?

her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.

Wherefore should we live any longer?

And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly.

saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you⌃ put us to death without trial.

And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand souls.

And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly.

And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.

And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let us fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.

And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons, Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.

To-day he shall be lifted up, and to-morrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished.

And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

And he died in the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.

And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.

for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.

But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men.

And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them.

But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company.

And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy among the people.

And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein.

And all our kindred that were in the land of Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men.

and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain.

And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.

In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as he went out to battle unadvisedly.

And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.

And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.

I percieve that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.

And king Antiochus died there in the hundred and forty and ninth year.

And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.

And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and the elephant fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.

And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom.

And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which the psalmist wrote,

The flesh of your saints did they cast out, And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem; And there was no man to bury them.

And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them, and cast them into the great pit.

and there fell of Nicanor’s side about five hundred men, and they fled into the city of David.

take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.

And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.

Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled.

And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left.

and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day:

And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them:

And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let us die manfully for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.

and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death.

And Judas fell, and the rest fled.

And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.

And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,