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, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before 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
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours.
Genesis 43:7
And they said, The man asked us expressly of our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Genesis 46:21
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

And his brother

Genesis 37:33
And he knew it and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob, their father, said unto them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are upon me.

He alone

Genesis 44:27
Then thy slave my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;
Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and many people from the city were with her.

General references

Numbers 1:36
Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the houses of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,