Genesis 21:16

Legacy Standard Bible

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see when the child dies.” And she sat opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept.

Cross References

Genesis 21:15

When the water in the skin was finished, she put the child under one of the bushes.

Genesis 27:38

And Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted his voice and wept.

Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would overtake my father?”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred with compassion over her son and said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!”

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the perishing of my kinsmen?”

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her infant And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.

Amos 8:10

“Then I will overturn your feasts into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring up sackcloth on everyone’s loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

Zechariah 12:10

“And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

Luke 15:20

So he rose up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Judges 2:4

So it happened that when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Ruth 1:9

May Yahweh grant that you may 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

Now it happened that when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” Then Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

1 Samuel 30:4

So David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.