Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? I should perhaps be compelled to witness the evil which would come on my father.
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Exodus 18:8And Moses told his father-in-law all which the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians on account of Israel, all the hardship which had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.
2 Chronicles 34:28Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy graves in peace, and thy eyes shall not look on all the evil which I am bringing over this place, and over its inhabitants. And they brought the king word again.
Job 31:29If ever I rejoiced at the downfall of him that hated me, or was elated when evil befell him;—
Psalms 119:143Distress and trouble have overtaken me: [yet] are thy commandments my delights.
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 →