Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Bible References

His daughters

Genesis 31:43
And Laban will answer and say to Jacob, The daughters, my daughters, and the sons, my sons, and the sheep, my sheep, and all which thou sawest, this to me, and to my daughters: what shall I do to these this day, or to their sons which they brought forth?
Genesis 35:22
And it will be in the dwelling of Israel in that land, and Reuben will go, and will lie with Bilhah, his father's concubine: and Israel will hear. And the sons of Jacob will be twelve.

Rose up

2 Samuel 12:17
And the old men of his house will rise to him to lift him up from the earth; and he would not, and he ate not bread with them.
Job 2:11
And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place:: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my straits I sought Jehovah: my hand was stretched out at night, and it will not be slack: my soul refused to be comforted.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus said Jehovah, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping of bitterness; Rachel, weeping for her sons, refused to be comforted for her sons, for they are not

For i

Genesis 42:31
And we shall say to him, We are true; we were not spying;
Genesis 44:29
And took ye this also from my face, and harm befell him, and ye brought down my old age with evil to hades.
Genesis 45:28
And Israel will say, It is much: Joseph my son is yet living: I will go and see him before I shall die.