Children: Grief Occasioned by Loss of
Source: TTT
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Genesis 44:27–29
And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. / When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since. / Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
2 Samuel 13:37
Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”