Job 27:14


“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

1 Samuel 2:5


“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].
Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.

2 Kings 9:7-8

You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, [who have died] at the hands of Jezebel.

2 Kings 10:6-10

Then Jehu wrote a second letter to them, saying, “If you are with me and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.” Now the [dead] king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.

Esther 5:11

Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the large number of his sons, and every instance in which the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him over the officials and servants of the king.

Esther 9:5-10

So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

Job 15:22


“He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered],
And he is destined for the sword [of God’s vengeance].

Job 20:10


“His sons favor the poor [and pay his obligations],
And his hands give back his [ill-gotten] wealth.

Job 21:11-12


“They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children skip about.

Psalm 109:13


Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

Hosea 9:13-14


Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant [and prosperous] meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner [for slaughter].

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have never nursed.’

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

His offspring

Bible References

His offspring

1 Samuel 2:5

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].
Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.