Genesis 37:35

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

All Jacob's children came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will go to my grave, mourning for my son.” So Jacob kept on grieving.

Cross References

Genesis 31:43

Laban said to Jacob, “Leah and Rachel are my daughters, and their children belong to me. All these sheep you are taking are really mine too. In fact, everything you have belongs to me. But there is nothing I can do to keep my daughters and their children.

Genesis 42:31

But we told him, “We're honest men, not spies.

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “I won't let my son Benjamin go down to Egypt with the rest of you. His brother is already dead, and he is the only son I have left. I am an old man, and if anything happens to him on the way, I'll die from sorrow, and all of you will be to blame.”

Genesis 45:28

and said, “Now I can believe you! My son Joseph must really be alive, and I will get to see him before I die.”

Genesis 48:11

Jacob turned to Joseph and told him, “For many years I thought you were dead and that I would never see you again. But now God has even let me live to see your children.”

2 Samuel 12:17

His officials stood beside him and tried to talk him into getting up. But he would not get up or eat with them.

2 Samuel 12:23

But now that he's dead, why should I go without eating? I can't bring him back! Some day I will join him in death, but he can't return to me.

2 Samuel 19:1

Someone told Joab, “The king is crying because Absalom is dead.”

1 Chronicles 7:22

Ephraim mourned for his sons a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.

Job 2:11

Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah were three of Job's friends, and they heard about his troubles. So they agreed to visit Job and comfort him.

Psalm 77:2

In days filled with trouble, I search for you. And at night I tirelessly lift my hands in prayer, refusing comfort.

Psalm 77:3

When I think of you, I feel restless and weak.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or knows anything.

Jeremiah 31:15

In Ramah a voice is heard, crying and weeping loudly. Rachel mourns for her children and refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.