Genesis 42:4
42:4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers,
for he said,
“What if some accident
happens
to him?”
Genesis 42:38
42:38 But Jacob
replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.
If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair
in sorrow to the grave.”
Genesis 43:14
43:14 May the sovereign God
grant you mercy before the man so that he may release
your other brother
and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”
Genesis 44:27-31
44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.
44:28 The first disappeared and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.
44:29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
44:30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.
44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
Psalms 80:17
80:17 May you give support to the one you have chosen,
to the one whom you raised up for yourself!