# זָקֵן (zaqen)

Israeli respelling: za-qen. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2205. 171 Old Testament occurrences.

old

King James renderings: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/zaqen-h2205

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 18:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/11) — Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- [Genesis 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/4) — But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from ev…
- [Genesis 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/2) — And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
- [Genesis 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/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.
- [Genesis 35:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/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.
- [Genesis 43:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/27) — And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
- [Genesis 44:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/20) — And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is…
- [Genesis 50:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/7) — And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the…
- [Exodus 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/16) — Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,…
- [Exodus 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/18) — And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him,…
- [Exodus 4:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/29) — And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
- [Exodus 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/9) — And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will w…
- [Exodus 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/21) — Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the p…
- [Exodus 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/17/5) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the…
- [Exodus 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/17/6) — Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that th…
- [Exodus 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/18/12) — And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread…
- [Exodus 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/19/7) — And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
- [Exodus 24:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/24/1) — And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar…
- [Exodus 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/24/9) — Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
- [Exodus 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/24/14) — And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have a…
- [Leviticus 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/15) — And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed befo…
- [Leviticus 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/9/1) — And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
- [Leviticus 19:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/32) — Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- [Numbers 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/16) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and off…
- [Numbers 11:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/24) — And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round…
- [Numbers 11:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/25) — And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and i…
- [Numbers 11:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/30) — And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
- [Numbers 16:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/25) — And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
- [Numbers 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/4) — And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the…
- [Numbers 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/7) — And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake…
- [Deuteronomy 5:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/23) — And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unt…
- [Deuteronomy 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/12) — Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
- [Deuteronomy 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/2) — Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
- [Deuteronomy 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/3) — And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wro…
- [Deuteronomy 21:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/4) — And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heif…
- [Deuteronomy 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/6) — And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
- [Deuteronomy 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/19) — Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
- [Deuteronomy 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/20) — And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a…
- [Deuteronomy 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/15) — Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city…
- [Deuteronomy 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/16) — And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
- [Deuteronomy 22:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/17) — And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughte…
- [Deuteronomy 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/18) — And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
- [Deuteronomy 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/7) — And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s br…
- [Deuteronomy 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/8) — Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
- [Deuteronomy 25:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/9) — Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and…
- [Deuteronomy 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/1) — And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
- [Deuteronomy 28:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/50) — A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
- [Deuteronomy 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/10) — Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Is…
- [Deuteronomy 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/9) — And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all…
- [Deuteronomy 31:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/28) — Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to r…
- [Deuteronomy 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/7) — Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell the…
- [Joshua 6:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/21) — And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sw…
- [Joshua 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/6) — And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel…
- [Joshua 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/10) — And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
- [Joshua 8:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/33) — And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levite…
- [Joshua 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/11) — Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet the…
- [Joshua 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/20/4) — And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the…
- [Joshua 23:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/23/2) — And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto th…
- [Joshua 24:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/1) — And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, an…
- [Joshua 24:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/31) — And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works…
- [Judges 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/7) — And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work…
- [Judges 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/14) — And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof…
- [Judges 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/8/16) — And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
- [Judges 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/5) — And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
- [Judges 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/7) — And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now whe…
- [Judges 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/8) — And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the childr…
- [Judges 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/9) — And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them be…
- [Judges 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/10) — And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
- [Judges 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/11) — Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before…
- [Judges 19:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/16) — And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but…
- [Judges 19:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/17) — And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence…
- [Judges 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/20) — And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
- [Judges 19:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/22) — Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at t…
- [Judges 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/16) — Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
- [Ruth 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/4/2) — And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
- [Ruth 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/4/4) — And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem…
- [Ruth 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/4/9) — And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all tha…
- [Ruth 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/4/11) — And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house lik…
- [1 Samuel 2:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/31) — Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
- [1 Samuel 2:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/32) — And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine hou…
- [1 Samuel 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/3) — And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? L…
- [1 Samuel 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/4) — Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
- [1 Samuel 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/11/3) — And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, i…
- [1 Samuel 15:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/30) — Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, tha…
- [1 Samuel 16:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/4) — And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou p…
- [1 Samuel 28:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/28/14) — And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it w…
- [1 Samuel 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/26) — And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the…
- [2 Samuel 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/17) — And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
- [2 Samuel 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/3) — So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed…
- [2 Samuel 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/17) — And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
- [2 Samuel 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/4) — And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
- [2 Samuel 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/15) — Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus an…
- [2 Samuel 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/11) — And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the…
- [1 Kings 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/1) — Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king…
- [1 Kings 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/3) — And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
- [1 Kings 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/6) — And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I ma…
- [1 Kings 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/8) — But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and whic…
- [1 Kings 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/13) — And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;
- [1 Kings 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/11) — Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the…
- [1 Kings 13:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/25) — And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the cit…
- [1 Kings 13:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/29) — And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city,…
- [1 Kings 20:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/7) — Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent u…
- [1 Kings 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/8) — And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
- [1 Kings 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/8) — So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his…
- [1 Kings 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/11) — And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it…
- [2 Kings 6:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/32) — But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he sa…
- [2 Kings 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/1) — And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them t…
- [2 Kings 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/5) — And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying,…
- [2 Kings 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/2) — And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah…
- [2 Kings 23:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/1) — And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
- [1 Chronicles 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/3) — Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anoi…
- [1 Chronicles 15:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/25) — So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house…
- [1 Chronicles 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/16) — And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretc…
- [2 Chronicles 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/5/2) — Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jeru…
- [2 Chronicles 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/5/4) — And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
- [2 Chronicles 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/6) — And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye m…
- [2 Chronicles 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/8) — But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before…
- [2 Chronicles 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/13) — And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
- [2 Chronicles 34:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/29) — Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
- [2 Chronicles 36:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/17) — Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had n…
- [Ezra 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/3/12) — But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of t…
- [Ezra 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/8) — And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be fo…
- [Ezra 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/14) — Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, an…
- [Esther 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/13) — And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old…
- [Job 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/20) — He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
- [Job 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/32/4) — Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- [Job 32:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/32/9) — Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
- [Job 42:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/17) — So Job died, being old and full of days.
- [Psalms 105:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/22) — To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
- [Psalms 107:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/32) — Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
- [Psalms 119:100](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/100) — I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
- [Psalms 148:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/148/12) — Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
- [Proverbs 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/6) — Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
- [Proverbs 20:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/29) — The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
- [Proverbs 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/23) — Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
- [Ecclesiastes 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/4/13) — Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
- [Isaiah 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/2) — The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
- [Isaiah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/5) — And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the…
- [Isaiah 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/14) — The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of…
- [Isaiah 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/15) — The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
- [Isaiah 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/20/4) — So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with t…
- [Isaiah 24:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/23) — Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his…
- [Isaiah 37:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/2) — And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah t…
- [Isaiah 47:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/47/6) — I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancie…
- [Isaiah 65:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/20) — There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old…
- [Jeremiah 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/11) — Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly…
- [Jeremiah 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/1) — Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
- [Jeremiah 26:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/17) — Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
- [Jeremiah 29:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/1) — Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away…
- [Jeremiah 31:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/13) — Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them…
- [Jeremiah 51:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/22) — With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in piec…
- [Lamentations 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/19) — I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to rel…
- [Lamentations 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/10) — The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themsel…
- [Lamentations 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/21) — The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the da…
- [Lamentations 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/16) — The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the…
- [Lamentations 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/12) — Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
- [Lamentations 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/14) — The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- [Ezekiel 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/26) — Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish…
- [Ezekiel 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/1) — And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah s…
- [Ezekiel 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/11) — And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan…
- [Ezekiel 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/12) — Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his…
- [Ezekiel 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/6) — Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sa…
- [Ezekiel 14:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/1) — Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
- [Ezekiel 20:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/1) — And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enqui…
- [Ezekiel 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/3) — Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the…
- [Ezekiel 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/9) — The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occup…
- [Joel 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/2) — Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
- [Joel 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/14) — Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and…
- [Joel 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/16) — Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom…
- [Joel 2:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/28) — And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your o…
- [Zechariah 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/4) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his…