Genesis 47:9

Jacob calls his 130 years a pilgrimage that has been few and hard, shorter than his fathers' lives. He views life as a sojourn under God.

Cross-references · 27

• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Ps 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
• Gen 35:28And Isaac lived 180 years.
• Ps 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
• Jas 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Exod 6:4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
• Josh 24:29Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
• Deut 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
• Exod 7:7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
• Gen 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
• Job 42:16–17After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
• Gen 25:7–8Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
• Heb 11:9–16By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
• Ps 119:54Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
• Job 8:8–9Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
• Gen 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
• Gen 11:24–25When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
• Ps 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
• Gen 11:11And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
• Ps 90:3–12You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
• Heb 13:14For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
• Gen 5:27So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
• 1 Chr 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Ps 89:47–48Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
• 2 Sam 19:32–35Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
• 2 Cor 5:6Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

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