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
The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
2 Chronicles 34:28
"Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the disaster that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants."'" They brought back word to the king.
Esther 8:6
For how can I endure to see the disaster that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"
Jeremiah 52:10
The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the officials of Judah in Riblah.