Compassion and Sympathy

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Exodus 2:6Torrey Exemplified — Pharaoh's daughter

  And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

• 2 Samuel 17:27–29Torrey Exemplified — Shobi, &c

  ¶ And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and…

• 1 Kings 17:18Torrey Exemplified — Elijah

  And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

• 1 Kings 17:19Torrey Exemplified — Elijah

  And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

• Nehemiah 1:4Torrey Exemplified — Nehemiah

  ¶ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

• Job 2:11Torrey Exemplified — Job's friends

  ¶ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with…

• Job 6:14Torrey EXERCISE TOWARDS — The afflicted

  To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

• Job 30:25Torrey Exemplified — Job

  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

• Psalms 35:13Torrey EXERCISE TOWARDS — Enemies

  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

• Psalms 35:14Torrey Exemplified — David

  I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

• Psalms 106:46Torrey The wicked made to feel, for saints

  He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

• Proverbs 19:17Torrey EXERCISE TOWARDS — The poor

  He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.