“Old” Things in Scripture

Corn

Genesis 5:11-12 

11 Altogether, Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died.

12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

Sacks

Joshua 9:4 

They resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

Shoes

Joshua 9:5 

The men put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

Garments

Matthew 9:16 

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

Inhabitants

1 Samuel 27:8 

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

Prophet

1 Kings 13:25 

Some people who passed by saw the body thrown down there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 13:29 So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

Luke 9:8 

Others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life.