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Gen 15:15 — And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

And thou		Gen 25:8; Num 20:24; Num 27:13; Jdg 2:10; Job 5:26; Ecc 12:7; Act 13:36
in peace		2Ch 34:28; Psa 37:37; Isa 57:1,2; Dan 12:13; Mat 22:32; Hbr 6:13-19; Hbr 11:13-16
buried		Gen 23:4,19; Gen 25:8,9; Gen 35:29; Gen 49:29,31; Gen 50:13; Ecc 6:3; Jer 8:1,2
good		Gen 25:7,8; 1Ch 23:1; 1Ch 29:28; Job 5:26; Job 42:17

Correlating Passages

And thou

	Gen 25:8	Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.
	Num 20:24	Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
	Num 27:13	And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
	Jdg 2:10	And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
	Job 5:26	Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
	Ecc 12:7	Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
	Act 13:36	For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

in peace

	2Ch 34:28	Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
	Psa 37:37	Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the end of [that] man [is] peace.
	Isa 57:1	The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
	Isa 57:2	He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
	Dan 12:13	But go thou thy way till the end [be]: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
	Mat 22:32	I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
	Hbr 6:13	For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
	Hbr 6:14	Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
	Hbr 6:15	And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
	Hbr 6:16	For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.
	Hbr 6:17	Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:
	Hbr 6:18	That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
	Hbr 6:19	Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
	Hbr 11:13	These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
	Hbr 11:14	For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
	Hbr 11:15	And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
	Hbr 11:16	But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

buried

	Gen 23:4	I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
	Gen 23:19	And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
	Gen 25:8	Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.
	Gen 25:9	And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;
	Gen 35:29	And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, [being] old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
	Gen 49:29	And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
	Gen 49:31	There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
	Gen 50:13	For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
	Ecc 6:3	If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.
	Jer 8:1	At that time, saith the LORD, 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:
	Jer 8:2	And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

good

	Gen 25:7	And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
	Gen 25:8	Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.
	1Ch 23:1	So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
	1Ch 29:28	And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
	Job 5:26	Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
	Job 42:17	So Job died, [being] old and full of days.

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 15:15," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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