Genesis 21:16

New International Version

Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.

Cross References

Genesis 21:15

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

Genesis 27:38

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

Genesis 44:34

How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”

1 Kings 17:12

“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

1 Kings 3:26

The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!” But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”

Esther 8:6

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

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

Jeremiah 6:26

Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Zechariah 12:10

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

1 Samuel 24:16

When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud.

1 Samuel 30:4

So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.