CHILDREN

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• Genesis 6:18

  But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

• Genesis 12:7

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 13:15

  for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

• Genesis 15:2

  Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• Genesis 15:3

  Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

• Genesis 15:4

  Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

• Genesis 15:5

  Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.”

• Genesis 17:7

  I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

• Genesis 17:8

  I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

• Genesis 17:9

  God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

• Genesis 17:10

  This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

• Genesis 17:11

  You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

• Genesis 17:12

  He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

• Genesis 17:14

  The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

• Genesis 19:12

  The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

• Genesis 21:1

  Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

• Genesis 21:2

  Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

• Genesis 21:8

  The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

• Genesis 21:13

  I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 26:3

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 26:4

  I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

• Genesis 26:5

  because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

• Genesis 26:24

  Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 30:17

  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

• Genesis 30:21

  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

• Genesis 30:24

  She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

• Genesis 37:4

  His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

• Exodus 1:22

  Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

• Exodus 2:7

  Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

• Exodus 2:8

  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The maiden went and called the child’s mother.

• Exodus 2:9

  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.

• Exodus 12:29

  At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

• Exodus 20:5

  you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Exodus 21:7

  “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

• Exodus 21:8

  If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

• Exodus 21:9

  If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

• Exodus 21:11

  If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

• Exodus 34:7

  keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

• Leviticus 20:5

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

• Leviticus 26:39

  Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

• Leviticus 26:40

  “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

• Leviticus 26:42

  then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

• Leviticus 26:44

  Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;

• Leviticus 26:45

  but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

• Numbers 14:18

  ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

• Numbers 14:33

  Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

• Deuteronomy 7:12

  It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

• Deuteronomy 7:14

  You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

• Deuteronomy 21:15

  If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• Deuteronomy 23:2

  A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

• Judges 13:5

  for, behold, you shall conceive, and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

• Judges 13:7

  but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

• Ruth 1:16

  Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

• Ruth 1:17

  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

• Ruth 1:18

  When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

• Ruth 4:16

  Naomi took the child, and laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

• 1 Samuel 1:9

  So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

• 1 Samuel 1:10

  She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

• 1 Samuel 1:12

  As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

• 1 Samuel 1:14

  Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

• 1 Samuel 1:15

  Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 1:16

  Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

• 1 Samuel 1:17

  Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

• 1 Samuel 1:18

  She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

• 1 Samuel 1:19

  They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

• 1 Samuel 1:20

  When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 1:22

  But Hannah didn’t go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

• 1 Samuel 1:25

  They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

• 1 Samuel 1:26

  She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 1:27

  I prayed for this child; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

• 1 Samuel 1:28

  Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

• 1 Samuel 2:18

  But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 3:13

  For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

• 1 Samuel 3:14

  Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

• 1 Samuel 28:19

  Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 12:14

  However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

• 2 Samuel 12:15

  Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

• 2 Samuel 12:16

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• 2 Samuel 12:17

  The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

• 2 Samuel 12:18

  On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

• 2 Samuel 12:19

  But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

• 1 Kings 11:20

  The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

• 1 Kings 17:17

  After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

• 1 Kings 17:18

  She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

• 1 Kings 17:20

  He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

• 1 Kings 17:21

  He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

• 1 Kings 17:22

  Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

• 1 Kings 17:23

  Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

• 1 Kings 21:29

  “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

• 2 Kings 4:1

  Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

• 2 Kings 4:17

  The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

• 2 Kings 4:18

  When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.

• 2 Kings 4:19

  He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

• 2 Kings 4:20

  When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

• 2 Kings 4:21

  She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.

• 2 Kings 4:22

  She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.”

• 2 Kings 4:23

  He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s alright.”

• 2 Kings 4:24

  Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”

• 2 Kings 4:25

  So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

• 2 Kings 4:26

  Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’” She answered, “It is well.”

• 2 Kings 4:27

  When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

• 2 Kings 4:28

  Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

• 2 Kings 4:29

  Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

• 2 Kings 4:30

  The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So he arose, and followed her.

• 2 Kings 4:31

  Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

• 2 Kings 4:32

  When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.

• 2 Kings 4:33

  He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 4:34

  He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.

• 2 Kings 4:35

  Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

• 2 Kings 4:36

  He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

• 2 Kings 10:1

  Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,

• 2 Kings 10:2

  “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,

• 2 Kings 10:3

  Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

• 2 Kings 10:4

  But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”

• 2 Kings 10:5

  He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”

• 2 Kings 10:6

  Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

• 2 Kings 10:7

  When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 10:8

  A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

• 2 Kings 16:3

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

• 2 Kings 17:31

  and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Job 5:25

  You shall know also that your offspring shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

• Job 21:19

  You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

• Job 24:9

  There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

• Psalms 37:28

  For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

• Psalms 128:2

  For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

• Psalms 128:3

  Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

• Psalms 128:4

  Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

• Psalms 128:6

  Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

• Psalms 131:2

  Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

• Isaiah 14:20

  You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

• Isaiah 14:21

  Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

• Isaiah 28:9

  Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

• Isaiah 65:6

  “Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

• Isaiah 65:7

  your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

• Isaiah 65:23

  They will not labor in vain, nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed, and their descendants with them.

• Jeremiah 1:5

  “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

• Jeremiah 1:6

  Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

• Jeremiah 1:7

  But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

• Jeremiah 31:29

  “In those days they shall say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

• Jeremiah 31:30

  But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

• Jeremiah 32:18

  who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;

• Jeremiah 32:35

  They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech; which I didn’t command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”

• Ezekiel 16:4

  As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

• Ezekiel 16:5

  No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.

• Ezekiel 16:6

  “‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

• Ezekiel 16:20

  “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

• Ezekiel 16:21

  that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

• Ezekiel 18:1

  Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,

• Ezekiel 18:2

  “What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

• Ezekiel 18:3

  “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.

• Ezekiel 18:4

  Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

• Ezekiel 18:5

  “But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

• Ezekiel 18:6

  and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:8

  he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

• Ezekiel 18:9

  has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 18:10

  “If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

• Ezekiel 18:11

  or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

• Ezekiel 18:12

  has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

• Ezekiel 18:13

  has lent on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be on him.

• Ezekiel 18:14

  “Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

• Ezekiel 18:15

  who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,

• Ezekiel 18:16

  neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:17

  who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 18:18

  As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 18:19

  “Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 18:20

  The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

• Ezekiel 18:21

  “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:22

  None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

• Ezekiel 18:23

  Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

• Ezekiel 18:24

  “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

• Ezekiel 18:25

  “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

• Ezekiel 18:26

  When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

• Ezekiel 18:27

  Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

• Ezekiel 18:28

  Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:29

  Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

• Ezekiel 18:30

  “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

• Daniel 6:24

  The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

• Hosea 11:3

  Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

• Matthew 2:17

  Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

• Matthew 2:18

  “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

• Matthew 9:18

  While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

• Matthew 9:24

  he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

• Matthew 9:25

  But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

• Matthew 9:26

  The report of this went out into all that land.

• Matthew 15:28

  Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

• Matthew 17:18

  Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

• Matthew 18:25

  But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

• Mark 5:35

  While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”

• Mark 5:36

  But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”

• Mark 5:37

  He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

• Mark 5:38

  He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.

• Mark 5:39

  When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”

• Mark 5:40

  They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

• Mark 5:41

  Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”

• Mark 5:42

  Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.

• Mark 7:29

  He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”

• Mark 7:30

  She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

• Mark 9:23

  Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

• Mark 9:24

  Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

• Mark 9:25

  When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

• Mark 9:26

  Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”

• Mark 9:27

  But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

• Luke 1:13

  But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

• Luke 1:15

  For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

• Luke 1:80

  The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

• Luke 2:7

  She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

• Luke 2:12

  This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

• Luke 2:40

  The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

• Luke 2:46

  After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

• Luke 2:47

  All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

• Luke 2:52

  And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

• Luke 7:13

  When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

• Luke 7:14

  He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

• Luke 7:15

  He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

• Luke 8:42

  for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

• Luke 8:43

  A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,

• Luke 8:44

  came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

• Luke 8:45

  Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

• Luke 8:46

  But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

• Luke 8:47

  When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

• Luke 8:48

  He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

• Luke 8:49

  While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”

• Luke 8:50

  But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”

• Luke 8:51

  When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

• Luke 8:52

  All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

• Luke 8:53

  They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

• Luke 8:54

  But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”

• Luke 8:55

  Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

• Luke 8:56

  Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.

• Luke 9:38

  Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

• Luke 9:39

  Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.

• Luke 9:40

  I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”

• Luke 9:41

  Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

• Luke 9:42

  While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

• John 4:46

  Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

• John 4:47

  When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

• John 4:48

  Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

• John 4:49

  The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

• John 4:50

  Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

• John 4:51

  As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”

• John 4:52

  So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”

• John 19:26

  Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

• John 19:27

  Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

• Acts 7:20

  At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

• Acts 22:3

  “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

• Galatians 3:24

  So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

• Galatians 4:1

  But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

• Galatians 4:2

  but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

• Hebrews 12:8

  But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.