<t /><p class="bodytext">When Joshua was very old,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> told him, &#8220;You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

Isaac<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since<n id="2" /> I am so old, I could die at any time.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Although its roots may grow old<n id="1" /> in the groundp> <p class="poetry">and its stump begins to die<n id="2" /> in the soil,<n id="3" />p>

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,<n id="1" /> &#8220;After I am worn out will I have pleasure,<n id="2" /> especially when my husband is old too?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years,<n id="1" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> had blessed him<n id="2" /> in everything.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">King David was very old;<n id="1" /> even when they covered him with blankets,<n id="2" /> he could not get warm.

So he asked Gehazi,<n id="1" /> &#8220;What can I do for her?&#8221; Gehazi replied, &#8220;She has no son, and her husband is old.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">When David was old and approaching the end of his life,<n id="1" /> he made his son Solomon king over Israel.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jehoiada grew old and died at the age of 130.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I was once young, now I am old.p> <p class="poetry">I have never seen a godly man abandoned,p> <p class="poetry">or his children<n id="1" /> forced to search for food.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Train<n id="1" /> a child<n id="2" /> in the way that he should go,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and when he is old he will not turn from it.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to your father who begot you,p> <p class="poetry">and do not despise your mother when she is old.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Abraham, &#8220;Why<n id="1" /> did Sarah laugh and say, &#8216;Will I really<n id="2" /> have a child when I am old?&#8217;

Later the older daughter said<n id="1" /> to the younger, &#8220;Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby<n id="2" /> to have sexual relations with us,<n id="3" /> according to the way of all the world.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind,<n id="2" /> he called his older<n id="3" /> son Esau and said to him, &#8220;My son!&#8221; &#8220;Here I am!&#8221; Esau<n id="4" /> replied.

So Joshua summoned all Israel, including the elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and told them: &#8220;I am very old.

They said to him, &#8220;Look, you are old, and your sons don&#8217;t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead<n id="1" /> us, just like all the other nations have.&#8221;p>

Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.

But Barzillai was very old &#8211; eighty years old, in fact &#8211; and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich<n id="1" /> man.