Genesis 44:20-22

20And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, aand a young brother, bthe child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ 21Then you said to your servants, c‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, dhis father would die.’

Job 1:18-19

18While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, e“Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 19and behold, a great wind came across fthe wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Zechariah 12:10

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10“And gI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and hpleas for mercy, so that, iwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, jthey shall mourn for him, kas one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Luke 7:12

12As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, lthe only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.
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