50 Bible Verses about Death Of A Child

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

And this woman's child died in the night; because she laid on it.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

And she went, and sat down apart from 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 away from him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

Arise therefore, get you to your own house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the region thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.

Run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. And the first said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.

And when Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

And when he came in, he said unto them, Why make you this commotion, and weep? the child is not dead, but sleeps.

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

He said unto them, Depart: for the girl is not dead, but sleeps. And they laughed him to scorn.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for you have borne a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up children unto his brother.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead: but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.

And the second took her, and died, neither left he any children: and the third likewise.

There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not fulfilled his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old; but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

And the seven had her, and left no children: last of all the woman died also.

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child's life.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from sheol.

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

And it came to pass, as her soul was departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus says the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.