Genesis 21:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

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  • Gen 27:38 : 38 And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping.
  • Gen 29:11 : 11 And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.
  • Gen 44:34 : 34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
  • Judg 2:4 : 4 Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.
  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.
  • 1 Sam 24:16 : 16 So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
  • Esth 8:6 : 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?
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 21:17-19
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    82%

    17And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

    18Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

    19Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

  • Gen 21:14-15
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    82%

    14And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

    15And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

  • Gen 16:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

    7And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

    8And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

  • Gen 21:9-12
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    9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    10So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

    11And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

    12But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

  • Gen 16:11
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    11And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

  • Gen 16:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

    14So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

  • 1 Sam 1:10
    70%

    10And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
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    22And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

  • Gen 17:18
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    18And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

  • Gen 16:4
    68%

    4And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

  • Gen 16:1-2
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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

    2And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
    68%

    20And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

  • Exod 2:6
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    6And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

  • Gen 21:7
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    7And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
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    20And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?