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
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar,'shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.
2 Chronicles 34:28
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.
Esther 8:6
for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Jeremiah 52:10
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.