Genesis 21:16

New Living Translation

Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.

Cross References

Genesis 21:15

When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.

Genesis 27:38

Esau pleaded, “But do you have only one blessing? Oh my father, bless me, too!” Then Esau broke down and wept.

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and he wept aloud.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “I swear by the Lord your God that I don’t have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?”

Isaiah 49:15

“Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you!

Jeremiah 6:26

Oh, my people, dress yourselves in burlap and sit among the ashes. Mourn and weep bitterly, as for the loss of an only son. For suddenly the destroying armies will be upon you!

Amos 8:10

I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your sorrow— as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will be!

Zechariah 12:10

“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.

Luke 15:20

“So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord finished speaking to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Ruth 1:9

May the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.

1 Samuel 24:16

When David had finished speaking, Saul called back, “Is that really you, my son David?” Then he began to cry.

1 Samuel 30:4

they wept until they could weep no more.