Genesis 44:34
For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
33So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.
Cross References
Exodus 18:8And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.
2 Chronicles 34:28See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.
Job 31:29If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
Psalms 119:143Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:19-34
Judah's Appeal on Behalf of Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And… Read the whole commentary →