Luke 7:12 Cross References - NSB

¹² When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her.

² »Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.«

¹² »Do not hurt the boy or harm him in any way!« The angel said. »Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son.«

⁷ »All my relatives have turned against me and are demanding that I hand my son over to them. They want to kill him for murdering his brother. If they do this, I will be left without a son. They will destroy my last hope. They will leave my husband without a son to keep his name alive.«

¹⁶ Elisha said to her: »By this time next year you will hold a son in your arms.« »Please do not lie to me. You are a man of God!« She said.

²⁰ The servant carried the boy back to his mother. She held him in her lap until noon. Then the boy died.

⁹ »Go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and live there. I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.«

¹² Then she said: »By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.«

¹⁸ She said to Elijah: »What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?«

²³ Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother. »See, your son is alive.« He said.

¹³ »The blessing of the wretched came upon me. I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁰ »I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.

⁴² His twelve-year old daughter was dying. She was his only daughter. As he went the crowds surrounded him.

⁵² They were all weeping and morning her. He said: »Do not weep for she is not dead, but sleeps.«

¹⁹ Many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother.

³⁹ Peter went to them right a way. When he arrived they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

⁴¹ He gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then he called the holy ones and widows and presented her alive.

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God. ⁵ Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplications and prayers day and night.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.