Genesis 37:35

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Summary

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

His daughters

Genesis 31:43

Genesis 35:22

Rose up

For i

Genesis 42:31

Genesis 44:29

Genesis 45:28

Bible References

His daughters

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had 12 sons:

Rose up

The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

This is what the Lord says:

A voice was heard in Ramah,
a lament with bitter weeping—
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children
because they are no more.

For i

But we told him: We are honest and not spies.

If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

Then Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go to see him before I die.”