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Genesis 21:16

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

Genesis 21:16 BSB
  1. a Hebrew; LXX the child lifted up his voice and wept

Genesis 21:16 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 49:15 (4 votes) and Genesis 29:11 (3 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 16 to Luke 15.

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Which verses does Genesis 21:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Isaiah 49:154 votes

    “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

  2. Genesis 29:113 votes

    Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

  3. Judges 2:43 votes

    When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

  4. Ruth 1:93 votes

    May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud

  5. 1 Samuel 24:163 votes

    When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

  6. 1 Samuel 30:43 votes

    So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

  7. 1 Kings 3:263 votes

    Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

  8. Esther 8:63 votes

    For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

  9. Zechariah 12:102 votes

    Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

  10. Luke 15:202 votes

    So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

  11. Genesis 27:381 vote
  12. Genesis 44:341 vote

Which verses point to Genesis 21:16?

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