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
But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.
2 Chronicles 34:28
See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.
Esther 8:6
For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?
Jeremiah 52:10
And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain