49 Bible Verses about Death Of A Mother

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Genesis 35:18

And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (son of the right hand).

Hebrews 7:3

Without [any record of] father or mother, nor ancestral line, without [any record of] beginning of days (birth) nor ending of life (death), but having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest without interruption and without successor.

2 Kings 4:19

But he said to his father, “My head, my head.” The man said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Joshua 2:13

and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, along with everyone who belongs to them, and let us all live.”

1 Samuel 4:20

And about the time of her death [following the sudden birth] the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she did not answer or pay any attention.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured [to death], refusing to accept release [offered on the condition of denying their faith], so that they would be resurrected to a better life;

Genesis 35:19

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Ruth 1:8

But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you return to your mother’s house. May the Lord show kindness to you as you have shown kindness to the dead and to me.

Job 3:11


“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

Jeremiah 16:7

People will not offer food to the mourners, to comfort anyone [as they grieve] for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.

Luke 7:15

The man who was dead sat up and began to speak. And Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Deuteronomy 24:16

“The fathers shall not be put to death for [the sins of] their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; [only] for his own sin shall anyone be put to death.

Genesis 23:1

Sarah lived a hundred and twenty-seven years; this was the length of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah [in marriage], and she became his wife, and he loved her; therefore Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Matthew 2:20

“Get up! Take the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”

2 Kings 4:20

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

Luke 7:12

Now as He approached the city gate, a dead man was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her [in the funeral procession].

Matthew 2:15

He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet [Hosea]: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the latter one an aroma from death to death [a fatal, offensive odor], but to the other an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is adequate and sufficiently qualified for these things?

Jeremiah 22:26

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.

Genesis 21:16

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And as she sat down opposite him, she raised her voice and wept.

John 19:25

So the soldiers did these things.

But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, His mother’s sister [Salome], Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

1 Kings 3:27

Then the king said, “Give the first woman [who is pleading for his life] the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”

Psalm 35:14


I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.

Jeremiah 20:17


Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.

Ruth 2:11

Boaz answered her, “I have been made fully aware of everything that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you did not know before.

2 Kings 4:32

When Elisha came into the house, the child was dead and lying on his bed.

John 19:26

So Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved (esteemed) standing near, said to His mother, “[Dear] woman, look, [here is] your son!”

Esther 2:7

He was the guardian of Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. The young woman was beautiful of form and face; and when her father and mother died, Mordecai took her in as his own daughter.

Deuteronomy 21:18

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,

Matthew 2:19

But when Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said,

Leviticus 21:11

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

Jeremiah 22:10


Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him;
But weep bitterly for the one who goes away [into exile],
For he will never return
And see his native country [again].

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring her out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed a deliberate sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 13:6

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as [precious to you as] your own life (soul), entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (gods whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

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