Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.”
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;