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they should have, not only a good land to go to, but a good stock to carry with them.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.
Abram's peaceful quiet death and burial, before these things should come to pass, Ge 15:15. As he should not live to see that good land in the possession of his family, but must die, as he lived, a stranger in it, so, to balance this, he should not live to see the troubles that should come upon his seed, much less to share in them. This is promised to Josiah, 2Ki 22:20. Note, Good men are sometimes greatly favoured by being taken away from the evil to come, Isa 57:1. Let this satisfy Abram, that, for his part,
(A) He shall go to his fathers in peace. Note,
[1.] Even the friends and favourites of Heaven are not exempted from the stroke of death. Are we greater than our father Abram, who is dead? Joh 8:53.
[2.] Good men die willingly; they are not fetched, they are not forced, but they go; their soul is not required, as the rich fool's (Lu 12:20), but cheerfully resigned: they would not live always.
[3.] At death we go to our fathers, to all our fathers that have gone before us to the state of the dead (Job 21:32, 33), to our godly fathers that have gone before us to the state of the blessed, Heb 12:23. The former thought helps to take off the terror of death, the latter puts comfort into it.
[4.] Whenever a godly man dies, he dies in peace. If the way be piety, the end is peace, Ps 37:37. Outward peace, to the last, is promised to Abram, peace and truth is his days, whatever should come afterwards (2Ki 20:19); peace with God, and everlasting peace, are sure to all the seed.