Genesis 21:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

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  • Gen 27:38 : 38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
  • Gen 29:11 : 11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
  • Gen 44:34 : 34 For 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."
  • Judg 2:4 : 4 It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
  • 1 Sam 24:16 : 16 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.
  • Esth 8:6 : 6 for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me{After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.} whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 21:17-19
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    82%

    17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

    18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

    19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

  • Gen 21:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

  • Gen 16:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

    7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

    8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

  • Gen 21:9-12
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    9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

    10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Isaac."

    11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

  • Gen 16:11
    72%

    11 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

  • Gen 16:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

    14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.{Beer Lahai Roi means "well of the one who lives and sees me."} Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

  • 1 Sam 1:10
    70%

    10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    70%

    22 He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • Gen 17:18
    69%

    18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

  • Gen 16:4
    68%

    4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

  • Gen 16:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2 Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
    68%

    20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Exod 2:6
    68%

    6 She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

  • Gen 21:7
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    7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
    67%

    20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

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