Verse 16

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot, away; for she thought,“I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 27:38 : 38 Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.
  • Gen 29:11 : 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.
  • Gen 44:34 : 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”
  • Judg 2:4 : 4 When the LORD’s angel finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
  • Ruth 1:9 : 9 May the LORD enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.
  • 1 Sam 24:16 : 16 When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said,“Is that your voice, my son David?” Then Saul wept loudly.
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”
  • Esth 8:6 : 6 For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.