Gen 37:35, Lev 19:28, Deu 14:1-2, 2Sa 12:19-20, 18:33, Job 1:21 | ESV | STEP | All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said , No , I shall go down to Sheol to my son , mourning . Thus his father wept for him.

k[See ver. 24 above]

p Ps. 113:2; Dan. 2:20; [Eph. 5:20; 1 Thess. 5:18]

Genesis 37:35

35 All his sons and all his daughters ^arose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, ^bI shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Leviticus 19:28

28 You shall not make any ^ccuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 14:1-2

Clean and Unclean Food

1 “You are ^dthe sons of the Lord your God. ^eYou shall not cut yourselves or make any ^fbaldness on your foreheads for the dead. 2 For ^gyou are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

2 Samuel 12:19-20

19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.” 20 Then David arose from the earth ^hand washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the Lord ⁱand worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

2 Samuel 18:33

33 ^{▼▼Ch 19:1 in Hebrew} And the king was deeply moved and went up ^kto the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, ^l“O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Job 1:21

21 And he said, ^m“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I ⁿreturn. The Lord ^ogave, and the Lord has taken away; ^pblessed be the name of the Lord.”