Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

We said

And his brother

General references

Bible References

We said

Genesis 49:8
Judah as to thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's children will bow down to thee.

A child

Genesis 35:18
And it came to pass as her soul was departing for she died that she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 37:3
And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours.
Genesis 43:7
And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Genesis 46:21
And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, And Becher, And Ashbel, Gera And Naaman, Ehi And Rosh, Muppim, And Huppim, And Ard.

And his brother

Genesis 37:33
And he discerned it, and said, It is my son's vest! an evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces!
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things are against me.

He alone

Genesis 44:27
And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
Luke 7:12
And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her.

General references

Numbers 1:36
Of the sons of Benjamin: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: