Genesis 37:35 Cross References

Genesis 37:35

35: 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.

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."

Three of Job's friends were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. When they heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him.

The leaders of the nation pleaded with him to get up and eat with them, but he refused.

Then Jacob said, "It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I will go and see him before I die."

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.'
"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.
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.

When I was in deep trouble, I searched for the Lord. All night long I pray, with hands lifted toward heaven, pleading. There can be no joy for me until he acts.

While he was there, Reuben slept with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and someone told Jacob about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:
The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.

This is what the LORD says: "A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--mourning and weeping unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for her children are dead."

Then Laban replied to Jacob, "These women are my daughters, and these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks and all that you have--all are mine. But what can I do now to my own daughters and grandchildren?

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