Genesis 37:35

Tree of Life Version

All his sons got up along with all his daughters to console him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” So his father kept weeping for him.

Cross References

Genesis 25:8

So Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, old and satisfied. Then he was gathered to his peoples.

Genesis 31:43

In response Laban said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks. Everything you see is mine. But what can I do for these, my daughters, today, or for their sons to whom they’ve given birth?

Genesis 35:29

Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. So his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 42:31

But we said to him, ‘We’re honest. We’ve never been spies.

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son will not go down with you—for his brother is dead and he alone remains. And if harm should happen to him along the way you’re going, you’ll bring my grey hair down to Sheol in grief.”

Genesis 45:28

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

Genesis 48:11

Then Israel said to Joseph, “To see your face, I didn’t expect—and look, God has let me see your offspring as well!”

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his household stood beside him in order to get him up from the floor but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.

2 Samuel 12:23

But now that he has died, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? It is I who will be going to him, but he will never return to me.”

2 Samuel 19:1

The king was shaken. So he went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. As he walked he cried, “My son Absalom! O my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! Absalom, my son, my son!”

1 Chronicles 7:22

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

Job 2:11

When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had come upon him, each of them came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come and mourn with him and to comfort him.

Psalm 77:2

My voice to God—and I cried out, my voice to God—and He heard me!

Psalm 77:3

In the day of my trouble I seek my Lord. At night my hand stretches out untiringly. My soul refuses to be comforted.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your strength, for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says Adonai: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears. For your work will be rewarded” —it is declaration of Adonai— “when they will return from the land of the enemy.