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 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Ps 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• Gen 35:28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
• Ps 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
• 1 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Jas 4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
• Exod 6:4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
• Josh 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
• Deut 34:7And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
• Exod 7:7And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
• Gen 50:26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
• Job 42:16–17After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
• Gen 25:7–8And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
• Heb 11:9–16By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
• Ps 119:54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
• Job 8:8–9For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
• Gen 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
• Gen 11:24–25And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
• Ps 119:19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
• Gen 11:11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
• Ps 90:3–12Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
• Heb 13:14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
• Gen 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
• 1 Chr 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
• Ps 89:47–48Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
• 2 Sam 19:32–35Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
• 2 Cor 5:6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

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