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 be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Jeremiah 4:19
My soul, my soul! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, 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 came near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Romans 9:2
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might 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 would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss.
Nehemiah 2:3
And said unto the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?