BEREAVEMENT

Passages on this topic · 43

• Genesis 23:2

  Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

• Genesis 50:1

  Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

• Genesis 50:4

  When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

• Exodus 12:29

  At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

• Exodus 12:30

  Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

• Exodus 12:31

  He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

• Exodus 12:32

  Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

• Exodus 12:33

  The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

• Leviticus 10:6

  Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes; so that you don’t die, and so that he not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

• Ruth 1:3

  Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

• Ruth 1:5

  Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

• Ruth 1:20

  She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

• Ruth 1:21

  I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

• 2 Samuel 12:15

  Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

• 2 Samuel 12:16

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• 2 Samuel 12:17

  The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

• 2 Samuel 12:18

  On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

• 2 Samuel 12:19

  But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.

• 2 Samuel 12:21

  Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”

• 2 Samuel 12:22

  He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

• 2 Samuel 12:23

  But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Samuel 19:4

  The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• Job 1:18

  While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Job 1:19

  and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:20

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 1:21

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Ecclesiastes 7:2

  It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

• Ecclesiastes 7:3

  Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

• Ecclesiastes 7:4

  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

• Ezekiel 24:16

  Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

• Ezekiel 24:17

  Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.

• Ezekiel 24:18

  So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

• Hosea 9:12

  Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13

  But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:14

  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:15

  For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:16

  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:17

  then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:18

  Therefore comfort one another with these words.