Verse 1

The Burials of Jacob and Joseph Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:4 : 4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”
• Deut 6:7-8 : 7 and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up. 8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.
• 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said,“My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!”
• Mark 5:38-39 : 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”
• John 11:35-38 : 35 Jesus wept. 36 Thus the people who had come to mourn said,“Look how much he loved him!” 37 But some of them said,“This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?” 38 Lazarus Raised from the Dead Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb.(Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)
• Acts 8:2 : 2 Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
• Eph 6:4 : 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
• Gen 23:2 : 2 Then she died in Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.