11 Bible Verses about The Only Child
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Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.
Do not hurt the boy or harm him in any way! The angel said. Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son.
He said: I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son,
Jephthah went back home to Mizpah. His daughter came out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child.
When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her.
His twelve-year old daughter was dying. She was his only daughter. As he went the crowds surrounded him.
A man in the crowd cried, Teacher, please look at my son. He is my only child.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.
By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. He that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only-begotten son!
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