Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
The evil
Bible References
For how
Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Luke 19:41
And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.
The evil
Esther 7:4
for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
Nehemiah 2:3
And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?