Job 27:14

If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.

2 Kings 9:7-8

You will destroy the family of your master Ahab. I will get revenge against Jezebel for the shed blood of my servants the prophets and for the shed blood of all the Lord's servants.

2 Kings 10:6-10

He wrote them a second letter, saying, "If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, then take the heads of your master's sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow." Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent men of the city were raising them.

Esther 5:11

Haman then recounted to them his fabulous wealth, his many sons, and how the king had magnified him and exalted him over the king's other officials and servants.

Esther 9:5-10

The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.

Job 15:22

He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

Job 20:10

His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

Job 21:11-12

They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.

Psalm 109:13

May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

Hosea 9:13-14

Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

Luke 23:29

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

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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 are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.

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