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
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters [are] my daughters and the grandsons [are] my grandsons, and the flocks [are] my flocks, and all that you see, it [is] mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne?
Genesis 35:22
And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard [about it].

Rose up

2 Samuel 12:17
The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he [was] not willing, and he did not eat [any] food with them.
Job 2:11
Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says Yahweh, "A voice [is] heard in Ramah, lamentation, [the] weeping of bitterness. Rachel [is] weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no [more]."

For i

Genesis 42:31
But we said to him, 'We [are] honest; we are not spies.
Genesis 44:29
And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'
Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, "[It is] enough. Joseph my son [is] still alive. I will go and see him before I die."