12 Bible Verses About Parental Love

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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.

Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.

But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!