1 Chronicles 23:1

David Organizes the Levites

23:1 When David was old and approaching the end of his life, ¹  he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

Genesis 35:29

35:29 Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. ²  He died an old man who had lived a full life. ³  His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Job 5:26

5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, ⁴ 

As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

[23:1]  ¹ tn Heb “and full of years.”

[35:29]  ² tn Heb “and Isaac expired and died and he was gathered to his people.” In the ancient Israelite view he joined his deceased ancestors in Sheol, the land of the dead.

[35:29]  ³ tn Heb “old and full of years.”

[5:26]  ⁴ tn The word translated “in a full age” has been given an array of meanings: “health; integrity”; “like a new blade of corn”; “in your strength [or vigor].” The numerical value of the letters in the word בְכֶלָח (bÿkhelakh, “in old age”) was 2, 20, 30, and 8, or 60. This led some of the commentators to say that at 60 one would enter the ripe old age (E. Dhorme, Job, 73).