Genesis 21:16

Free Bible Version

She went and sat down some way off, a few hundred yards away, saying, “I can't bear to watch my son die!” As she sat down she burst into tears.

Cross References

Genesis 21:15

When the water ran out, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Genesis 27:38

“Do you only have one blessing, my father?” Esau asked. “Please bless me too!” Then Esau began to cry very loudly.

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept for joy.

Genesis 44:34

For how could I ever go back to my father if the boy wasn't with me? I couldn't stand seeing the anguish that would cause my father.”

1 Kings 17:12

She replied, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour is left in a jar and a little bit of olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a few sticks so I can go and cook what's left for myself and my son so we can eat it, and then we'll die.”

1 Kings 3:26

But the woman whose son was alive had so much love for him as a mother that she cried out to the king, “Please, Your Majesty, give her the boy! Don't kill him!” But the other woman said, “He won't be mine or yours—cut him in two!”

Esther 8:6

For how can I bear to see the disaster about to fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”

Isaiah 49:15

Really? Can a mother forget her nursing baby? Can she forget to be kind to the child she carried in her womb? Even if she could forget, I will never forget you!

Jeremiah 6:26

Oh my people, put on sackcloth and roll around in ashes. Mourn and cry bitterly like you would for an only son, because the destroyer will come down on you suddenly.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.

Zechariah 12:10

I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.

Luke 15:20

So he left and went home to his father. Even though he was still far away in the distance, his father saw him coming, and his heart went out to his son. The father ran to his son, hugging and kissing him.

Judges 2:4

After the angel of the Lord had explained this to all the Israelites, the people wept out loud.

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord give you a good home with another husband.” She kissed them, and they all started to cry loudly.

1 Samuel 24:16

After David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that you speaking, David my son?” and he wept out loud.

1 Samuel 30:4

David and his men cried loudly until they couldn't cry any more.