Genesis 37:35

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father bewailed him.

Cross References

Genesis 25:8

Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, old and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 31:43

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about their children whom they have borne?

Genesis 35:29

And Isaac breathed his last; he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days, and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 42:31

But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 45:28

Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.”

Genesis 48:11

Israel said to Joseph, “I did not expect to see your face, and here God has let me see your children also.”

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

2 Samuel 19:1

It was told Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

1 Chronicles 7:22

And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

Job 2:11

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Psalm 77:3

I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.