Genesis 44:30

New International Version

“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,

Cross References

Genesis 44:17

But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”

Genesis 44:20

And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:22

And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’

Genesis 44:31

sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

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.”

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son!”

1 Samuel 18:1

After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 25:29

Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.