Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Bible References
Lest
1 Samuel 2:33
Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar; your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul will grieve, and all those born in your house will die as men [in the prime of life].
2 Chronicles 34:28
“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers [in death], and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I am going to bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” So they brought back word to the king.
Esther 8:6
For how can I endure to see the tragedy that will happen to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”
Jeremiah 52:10
The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah at Riblah.