Genesis 21:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about a bowshot, for she said, Let me not see the death of the lad. And as she sat down opposite him, he lifted up his voice and wept and she raised her voice and wept.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ She walked away from him about as far as a bow shot and sat down, telling herself, I can’t bear to see the boy die. She sat at a distance, cried out in grief, and wept.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And she moved away and sat in a distant area, as far as a bow can reach. For she said, "I shall not see the boy die." And so, sitting opposite her, he lifted up his voice and wept.

Genesis 21:16 Cross References

Genesis 21:15

And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 27:38

And Ě

Genesis 29:11

And Yaʽ

Genesis 44:34

“For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, “As יהוה  your Elohim lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar. And see, I am gathering a couple of sticks and shall go in and prepare it for myself and my son, and we shall eat it, and die.”

1 Kings 3:26

And the woman whose son was living spoke to the sovereign, for she was overcome with compassion for her son. And she said, “O my master, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!” But the other said, “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.”

Esther 8:6

“For how could I bear to see the evil coming to my people? Or how could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Isaiah 49:15

“Would a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Though they forget, I never forget you.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation because suddenly the ravager shall come upon us.

Amos 8:10

and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness.

Zechariah 12:10

“And I shall pour on the house of Dawiḏ

Luke 15:20

“And having risen, he went to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Judges 2:4

And it came to be, when the Messenger of יהוה  spoke these words to all the children of Yisra’ĕ

Ruth 1:9

“יהוה  grant that you find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

1 Samuel 24:16

And it came to be, when Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 30:4

And Dawiḏ