Lexicon :: Strong's H2205 - zāqēn

So the prophet lifted the corpse of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back. The old prophet came into the city to mourn and to bury him.

Then the king of Israel called for all the elders of the land and said, “Recognize[fn] that this one is only looking for trouble, for he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I didn’t turn him down.”

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him? ”

Since Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab’s sons,[fn] saying:

He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

So the king sent messengers, and they gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron. David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the LORD’s presence, and they anointed David king over Israel, in keeping with the LORD’s word through Samuel.

David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.

When David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell facedown.

At that time Solomon assembled at Jerusalem the elders of Israel ​— ​all the tribal heads, the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites ​— ​in order to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD up from the city of David, that is, Zion.

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people? ”

So the king sent messengers and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple, but many others shouted joyfully.

Whoever did not come within three days would forfeit all his possessions,[fn] according to the decision of the leaders and elders, and would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.

Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people ​— ​young and old, women and children ​— ​and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.[fn]

He deprives trusted advisers of speech

and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were all older than he.

Then Job died, old and full of days.

binding[fn] his officials at will

and instructing his elders.

Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people

and praise him in the council of the elders.

I understand more than the elders

because I obey your precepts.

young men as well as young women,

old and young together.

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,

and the pride of children is their fathers.

The glory of young men is their strength,

and the splendor of old men is gray hair.

Her husband is known at the city gates,

where he sits among the elders of the land.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.

heroes and warriors,

judges and prophets,

fortune-tellers and elders,

The head is the elder, the honored one;

the tail is the prophet, the one teaching lies.

“so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, stripped and barefoot, with bared buttocks ​— ​to Egypt’s shame.

The moon will be put to shame

and the sun disgraced,

because the LORD of Armies will reign as king

on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,

and he will display his glory

in the presence of his elders.

He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

“I was angry with my people;

I profaned my possession,

and I handed them over to you.

You showed them no mercy;

you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

“In her, a nursing infant will no longer live

only a few days,[fn]

or an old man not live out his days.

Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old

will be mourned as a young man,[fn]

and the one who misses a hundred years

will be considered cursed.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.

Pour it out on the children in the street,

on the gathering of young men as well.

For both husband and wife will be captured,

the old with the very old.[fn]

This is what the LORD says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take[fn] some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to all the assembled people,

This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining exiled elders, the priests, the prophets, and all the people Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Then the young women will rejoice with dancing,

while young and old men rejoice together.

I will turn their mourning into joy,

give them consolation,

and bring happiness out of grief.