Lexicon :: Strong's G4246 - presbytēs

He took his last breath and died at a good old age, old and contented,[fn] and he was gathered to his people.

“Please don’t leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

“a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

“Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, there will be terror;

the young man and the young woman will be killed,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword ​— ​every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was residing in Gibeah where the people were Benjaminites.

“Welcome! ” said the old man. “I’ll take care of everything you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.”

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, wicked men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him! ”

Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“You will see distress in the place of worship, in spite of all that is good in Israel, and no one in your family will ever again reach old age.

The LORD continued to appear in Shiloh, because there he revealed himself to Samuel by his word.

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel forty years.

So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was attending to him.

Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel. His son[fn] came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. His sons also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.

There were men passing by who saw the corpse thrown on the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and spoke about it in the city where the old prophet lived.

So he asked, “Then what should be done for her? ”

Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

When David was old and full of days, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.

Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us—

older than your father.

the young men saw me and withdrew,

while older men stood to their feet.

young men as well as young women,

old and young together.

The people will oppress one another,

man against man, neighbor against neighbor;

the young will act arrogantly toward the old,

and the worthless toward the honorable.

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.

“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.

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.

Both young and old

are lying on the ground in the streets.

My young women and young men

have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of your anger,

slaughtering without compassion.

The LORD himself has scattered them;

he no longer watches over them.

The priests are not respected;

the elders find no favor.

The elders have left the city gate,

the young men, their music.