Genesis 42:36

Jacob laments that he has lost Joseph and Simeon and now may lose Benjamin, feeling all is against him. His grief blinds him to God's hidden purpose.

Cross-references · 18

• Gen 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
• Rom 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• 1 Sam 27:1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
• Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
• Isa 38:10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
• Isa 27:9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
• Eccl 7:8Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Matt 14:31Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Isa 41:13–14For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• Gen 47:12Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
• Gen 45:28Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
• 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
• Gen 37:20–35Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
• Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

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