Verse 1

Joseph fell on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 46:4 : 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph will close your eyes with his own hand.
  • Deut 6:7-8 : 7 Teach them diligently to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Now Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die. Joash king of Israel came down to him, wept over him, and said, 'My father, my father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!'
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader, and Jesus saw a commotion with people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 He went inside and said to them, 'Why are you making such a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.'
  • John 11:35-38 : 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, 'See how he loved him!' 37 But some of them said, 'Couldn't he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?' 38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
  • Acts 8:2 : 2 Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.
  • Eph 6:4 : 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
  • Gen 23:2 : 2 Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.