74 Bible Verses About Years
To consider the years through the lens of Holy Scripture is to perceive the divine rhythm woven into existence. The Bible speaks of years not merely as measures of chronological passage, but as seasons unfolding God's eternal plan, marking epochs of grace, trial, and covenant. Reflecting on these verses reveals the profound significance time holds in the divine economy, guiding our perspective on life's fleeting moments and the enduring purposes of the Almighty. Such contemplation nourishes the soul, providing wisdom for navigating our earthly pilgrimage within the vast panorama of eternity, illuminating the spiritual lessons embedded within the journey of our days.
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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Serious Study: Bible Truths About Life's Years
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
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.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
Ish–bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
Reflecting upon these scriptural passages, we confront the profound mystery of years. They are not merely arbitrary units on a calendar, but markers of our finite journey within the infinite. The Bible reveals time's swift passage, likening life to a vapor, grass that withers, or a tale that is told. This brevity serves not to instill despair, but to awaken us to the precious, irretrievable nature of each season. It calls us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Our years are a gift, a canvas upon which we inscribe our response to the divine call. They urge us to seek not only fleeting temporal achievements but an enduring connection with the Eternal. Let the passage of years remind us to live with intention, purpose, and a constant gaze fixed upon the horizon of eternity, where time finds its ultimate meaning and fulfillment.