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 43:14And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Rom 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
• 1 Sam 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
• Rom 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• Job 7:7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
• Isa 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
• Isa 27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
• Eccl 7:8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Matt 14:31And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
• Isa 41:10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Isa 41:13–14For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
• Gen 47:12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
• Gen 45:28And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
• 1 Cor 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
• Gen 37:20–35Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
• Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

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