Genesis 42:38 Cross References

Genesis 42:38

38: But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother Joseph is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children. If anything should happen to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow."

Genesis 37:35

  1. His family all tried to comfort him, but it was no use. "I will die in mourning for my son," he would say, and then begin to weep.

Genesis 42:4

  1. Jacob wouldn't let Joseph's younger brother, Benjamin, go with them, however, for fear some harm might come to him.

Genesis 37:33

  1. Their father recognized it at once. "Yes," he said, "it is my son's robe. A wild animal has attacked and eaten him. Surely Joseph has been torn in pieces!"

Genesis 42:13

  1. "Sir," they said, "there are twelve of us brothers, and our father is in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is there with our father, and one of our brothers is no longer with us."

Genesis 35:16

  1. Leaving Bethel, they traveled on toward Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). But Rachel's pains of childbirth began while they were still some distance away.
  2. After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, "Don't be afraid--you have another son!"
  3. Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named him Ben-oni; the baby's father, however, called him Benjamin.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

  1. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Genesis 30:22

  1. Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by giving her a child.
  2. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. "God has removed my shame," she said.
  3. And she named him Joseph, for she said, "May the LORD give me yet another son."

Psalms 90:10

  1. Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone.

1 Kings 2:6

  1. Do with him what you think best, but don't let him die in peace.

Genesis 44:20

  1. We said, `Yes, we have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, his youngest son. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him very much.'

Isaiah 38:10

  1. I said, "In the prime of my life, must I now enter the place of the dead? Am I to be robbed of my normal years?"

Ecclesiastes 2:26

  1. God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who please him. But if a sinner becomes wealthy, God takes the wealth away and gives it to those who please him. Even this, however, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Psalms 71:18

  1. Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me.

Isaiah 46:4

  1. I will be your God throughout your lifetime--until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.

Genesis 44:27

  1. Then my father said to us, `You know that my wife had two sons,
  2. and that one of them went away and never returned--doubtless torn to pieces by some wild animal. I have never seen him since.
  3. If you take away his brother from me, too, and any harm comes to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow.'
  4. "And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father's life is bound up in the boy's life.
  5. When he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We will be responsible for bringing his gray head down to the grave in sorrow.
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