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 and the lad not be with me? I cannot go lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters and my 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 was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it,
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and continual pain in my heart.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, certainly the desire of my heart and my prayer to God regarding Israel, is for saving health.
The evil
Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. If we had been sold for menslaves and womenslaves, I would remain silent, even though the enemy could not recompense the damage to the king.
Nehemiah 2:3
and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever; why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the house of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?