Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Est 8:6For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

For how   Gen 44:34; Jer 4:19; Jer 9:1; Luk 19:41,42; Rom 9:2,3; Rom 10:1
endure to see   Heb. be able that I may see
the evil   Est 7:4; Neh 2:3
Correlating Passages
For how
Gen 44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Jer 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jer 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Rom 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Rom 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Rom 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
the evil
Est 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Neh 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

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