Genesis 37:35

World English Bible (2000)

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:38 : 38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
  • Job 2:11 : 11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
  • Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
  • Gen 44:29-31 : 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life; 31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
  • Gen 45:28 : 28 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
  • Gen 31:43 : 43 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
  • Gen 35:22-26 : 22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
  • Gen 42:31 : 31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 37:34
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    34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

  • Gen 42:38
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    38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

  • Gen 42:36
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    36Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

  • Gen 50:12
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    12His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

  • Gen 50:10
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    10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • 1 Chr 7:22
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    22Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

  • Gen 50:5
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    5'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

  • Gen 44:31
    74%

    31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

  • Gen 44:29
    73%

    29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

  • Gen 37:36
    73%

    36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

  • Gen 37:30
    73%

    30He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

  • Gen 50:14
    73%

    14Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  • Gen 50:7
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    7Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  • Gen 50:1
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    1Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.