Genesis 21:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and went and sat at a distance, about a bow shot away, for she said, ‘I can’t bear to watch the boy die! ’ While she sat at a distance, she  wept loudly.

Cross References

Isaiah 49:15

‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.

Esther 8:6

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?  How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ’

1 Kings 3:26

The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion  , for her son. ‘My lord, give her the living baby,’ she said, ‘but please don’t have him killed! ’ But the other one said, ‘He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two! ’

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion.   He ran, threw his arms round his neck, and kissed   him.

Zechariah 12:10

‘Then I will pour out a spirit  , of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at  me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.

1 Samuel 30:4

David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.

1 Samuel 24:16

When David finished saying these things to him, Saul replied, ‘Is that your voice, David my son? ’  Then Saul wept aloud

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord grant each of you rest  in the house of a new husband.’ She kissed them, and they wept loudly.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.’

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.

Genesis 27:38

Esau said to his father, ‘Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ’ And Esau wept loudly.

Genesis 21:15

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, ‘As the Lord your God lives,  I don’t have anything baked #– #only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil  in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.’

Jeremiah 6:26

My dear  people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in the dust. Mourn as you would for an only son, a bitter lament, for suddenly the destroyer  will come on us.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.