Bible Dictionary: Jacob: His Grief Over the Loss of Joseph

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Genesis 37:34,35
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
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Man's Passions and God's Purpose
... Jacob might have felt that bitterness, as he looked round ... he had brewed; and the
heart-broken grief which darkened ... years had sprung from seed of his own sowing ...
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How Joseph when He was Become Famous in Egypt, had his Brethren in ...
... as he was bidden, the sons of Jacob, knowing nothing of ... us together with him, as
partners of his crime,"for ... to be reserved to kill ourselves for grief of our ...
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Chapter xlii
... grief rests there in eternal shadowy grief," and cites ... under the shadow of doubt,
and his word hardly ... Jacob, therefore expresses only this thought: My last days ...
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Chapter xxxv
... a monument to a godly servant whose loss was deeply ... it is proper to mention his death,
though ... Strange to say, Isaac lived to witness Jacob's grief over Joseph. ...
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Those Things which are Generally Looked on as Good are Mostly ...
... which are accounted terrible as regards the grief they cause ... the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob"? ... what was even worse than this, his daughter's incestuous ...
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Chapter xxxiv
... a monument to a godly servant whose loss was deeply ... it is proper to mention his death,
though ... Strange to say, Isaac lived to witness Jacob's grief over Joseph. ...
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The Book of Jubilees
... xxxii.); the death of Bilhah and Dinah for grief at the loss of ... the name Esau"Art
thou my very son?" and his answer, "I am thy son""clears Jacob from a ...
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The Shepherd, the Stone of Israel
... Passionate grief and despairing murmurs he had felt and flung ... man's religion is his
conviction that God is his. Jacob will not be content with thinking of God ...
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Blessed are they that Mourn
... and say, Here I am' (Isaiah 58:9). When Jacob wept, then ... such that it swallowed up
the loss of his two children ... Spiritual grief must preponderate over all other ...
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Homilies on the Statues.
... Jacob, his care of Laban's sheep, [1379]354 ... command over created things, [1607]411;
his righteousness availed ... mother at Antioch, [1610]453; grief often relieves ...
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