For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him."
Cross References
Genesis 44:33Now please let your servant stay here as my lord's slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
Genesis 45:1Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, "Send everyone away from me!" So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
Treasury of Scripture
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
lest.
1 Samuel 2:33,34
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age…
2 Chronicles 34:28
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
Esther 8:6
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
come on.
Exodus 18:8
And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
Job 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
