Genesis 44:30

Modern English Version

“Now therefore when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,

Cross References

Genesis 44:17

But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave, but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Genesis 44:20

And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:22

We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Genesis 44:31

when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:34

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

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was deeply moved and went up to the upper chamber of the gate and wept. As he went he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! If only I could have given my death in your stead, Absalom, my son, my son!”

1 Samuel 18:1

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, so that Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 25:29

Even if a man rises to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies He will sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.