Reference: CHILDREN
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A numerous offspring was regarded as a signal blessing, Ps 127:3-5, and childless wives sought various means to escape the reproach of barrenness, which was deprecated in the blessing given to a newly married couple, Ru 4:11. The pangs of childbirth, in their suddenness and sharpness, are often alluded to in Scripture. The apostle Paul speaks of them as fruits and evidences of the fall; but assures those who abide in faith, that, amid all the suffering that reminds them that woman was first in the transgression, Ge 3:16, they may yet look trustfully to God for acceptance and salvation, 1Ti 2:15.
A newborn child was washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in swaddling clothes, Eze 16:4; Lu 2:7-11. On the eighth day he was circumcised and named. At his weaning a feast was often made, Ge 21:34. The nurse of a female child often attended her through life, Ge 24:59; 35:8. Children were to be instructed with great diligence and care, De 6:20-23. They were required to honor and obey their parents, and were subject to the father's control in all things, Ge 22:21; Nu 30:5; they were even liable to be sold into temporary bondage for his debts, Le 25:39-41; 2Ki 4:1; Mt 18:25.
The first-born son received, besides other privileges, (see BIRTHRIGHT,) two portions of his father's estate; the other sons, one portion each. The sons of concubines received presents, and sometimes an equal portion with the others, Ge 21:8-21; 25:1-6; 49:1-27; Jg 11:1-7. The daughters received no portion, except in cases provided for in Nu 27:1-11.
The term child or children, by a Hebrew idiom, is used to express a great variety of relations: the good are called children of God, of light, of the kingdom, etc.; the bad are named children of the devil, of wrath, of disobedience, etc. A strong man is called a son of strength; an impious man, a son of Belial; an arrow, the son of a bow, and a branch the son of a tree. The posterity of a man is his "sons," for many generations.
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To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
And the child will become great, and shall be weaned; and Abraham will make a great drinking in the day of weaning Isaak. And Sarah will see the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she brought forth to Abraham, laughing. read more. And she will say to Abraham, Cast out this maid-servant and her son; for the son of this maid-servant shall not inherit with my son, with Isaak. And the word was greatly evil in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son. And God will say to Abraham, It shall not be evil in thine eyes concerning the boy, and concerning thy maidservant; all which Sarah shall say to thee, hear to her voice; for in Isaak the seed shall be called to thee. And also the son of this maid-servant, I will make him into a nation, for he is thy seed. And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and take food, and a leathern bottle of water, and give to Hagar (putting upon her shoulder), and the child, and will send her away: and she will go forth and wander in the desert to the well of the oath. And the waters shall be spent in the water skin, and she will cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she will go and seat herself from over against., being far off as the bending of a bow: for she said, I will not see the death of the child. And she will seat herself from over against, and she will lift up her voice and weep. And God will hear the voice of the child: and the messenger of God will call to Hagar from the heavens, and will say to her, What to thee Hagar? thou. shalt not fear, for God heard the voice of the child, from where he is. Arise, lift up the child, and fasten thy hand upon him; for I will make him into a great nation. And God will open her eyes, and she will see a well of waters, and will go and fill the water skin with water, and will give the child to drink. And God will be with the child; and he will be great, and dwell in the desert, and will be to increase the bow. And he will dwell in the desert Paran: and his mother will take to him a wife from the land of Egypt
And Abraham will sojourn in the land of the Philistines many days.
Uz, his first-born, and Buz, his brother, and Lemuel, the father of Aram.
And they will send forth Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
And Abraham will add and take a wife; and her name Keturah. And she will bring forth to him, Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. read more. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim. And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these the sons of Keturah. And Abraham will give all which is to him to Isaak. And to the sons of the concubines which were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and he will send them away from Isaak his son (in his yet living) from the east to the east land.
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, will die, and be buried from below the house of God, under the oak: and its name shall be called, The Oak of Weeping.
And Jacob will call to his sons, and will say, Be ye gathered together, and I will announce to you what shall happen to you in the last part of the days. Be gathered together, and hear ye sons of Jacob, and hear to Israel your father. read more. Reuben, my first-born, thou my strength, and the beginning of my strength, the abundance of elevation, and the abundance of might Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch. Simon and Levi brethren; their swords instruments of violence. My soul shall not come into their consultation; in their assembly, my honor shall not be united, for in their anger they killed a man and in their will, houghed a bullock. Cursed their anger, for it was hard; and their wrath, for it was hardened: I will divide them in Jacob, and I will disperse them in Israel Judah, thee, thee shall thy brethren praise; thy hand upon the back of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall worship before thee. Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up? The rod shall not depart from Judah, and a leader from between his feet, till that Shiloh shall come: and to him the obedience of the nations. Binding his colt to the vine, and to the purple vine the son of the she-ass; he washed in wine his garment, and his clothing in the blood of grapes. The eyes flashing from wine, the teeth white from milk. Zebulon shall dwell by the coast of the sea; and he by a coast of ships, and the extremities, even to Zidon. Issachar, an ass; a heap of bone lying down in the midst of the tribes. And he will see the rest that it was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and he extended his shoulder to bear, and he will be a servant to tribute. Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent upon. the way, creeping upon the path, biting the heels of the horse and his beast for riding shall fall behind. I waited for thy deliverance, Jehovah. Gad, a troop, shall press upon him; and this shall press upon the heel. From Asher his bread, fat, and he will give the dainties of a king. Naphtali a mighty shoot, giving fair words. Joseph a fruitful son, a fruitful son upon a fountain, the daughters mounting over a wall. This adversary will embitter him, and the lords of the arrows will lie in wait. And his bow will dwell in strength, and the seed of his hands will be firm by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob; from whence the shepherd, the stone of Israel By the God of thy father, and he will help thee, and by the Almighty, and he will bless thee with the blessing of the heavens above, the blessing of the sea lying under, the blessing of the breasts and the womb. The blessings of thy father were strong above the blessings of the everlasting mountains; the delight of the eternal hills, they shall be upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the head of him separated from his brethren. Benjamin, a Wolf, tearing in pieces; in the morning will he eat the prey, and at evening he will divide the prey.
And when thy brother shall be poor with thee, and he was sold to thee, thou shalt not serve upon him the service of a servant. As the hireling, as the sojourner, he shall be with thee; till the year of jubilee he shall serve with thee; read more. And he shall go forth from thee, he and his sons with him, and turn back to his family, to the possession of his fathers shall he turn back.
And there will come near the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, for the families of Manesseh, son of Joseph: and these the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. And they will stand before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the chiefs, and all the assembly at the door of the tent of appointment, saying, read more. Our father died in the desert, and he was not in the midst of the assembly of them being gathered together against Jehovah, in the assembly of Korah; for he died in his sin, and there were no sons to him. Wherefore shall the name of our father be taken away from the midst of his family because there is not to him a son? Thou shalt give to us a possession in the midst of the brethren of our father. And Moses will bring near their judgment before Jehovah. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying. The daughters of Zelophehad spake rightly: giving, thou shalt give to them the possession of an inheritance in the midst of the brethren of their father, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass over to them. And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, A man when he shall die, and no son to him, and cause ye his inheritance to pass to his daughter. And if no daughter to him, give his inheritance to his brethren. And if no brethren to him, give ye his inheritance to the brethren of his father. And if no brethren to his father, give his inheritance to his remainder being near to him from his family; and he shall possess it, and it shall be to the sons of Israel for a law of judgment, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
And if her father refused her in the day of his hearing, all her vows and all her bindings which she bound upon her soul, it shall not stand; and Jehovah will forgive her, for her father refused her
When thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying, What the testimonies and the laws and the judgments which Jehovah our God commanded you? And say thou to thy son, We were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt by a strong hand: . read more. And Jehovah will give signs and wonders, great and evil, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his house before our eyes: And he brought us out from there in order to bring us in to give to us the land which he sware to our fathers.
and Jephthah the Gileadite was a man of strength, and he the son of a woman, a harlot And Gilead will beget Jephthah. And Gilead's wife will bring forth sons to him, and his wife's sons will grow, and they will drive out Jephthah, and they will say to him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house, for thou the son of another woman. read more. And Jephthah will flee from the face of his brethren and will dwell in the land of Tob: and empty men will gather together to Jephthah and will go forth with him. And it will be from days and the sons of Ammon will war with Israel. And it will be when the sons of Ammon warred with Israel, and the old men of Israel will go to take Jephthah out of the land of Tob. And they will say to Jephthah, Come and be to us for leader, and we will war against the sons of Ammon. And Jephthah will say to the old men of Gilead, Did ye not hate me, and ye will drive me out from my father's house? and why came ye to me now when there is distress to you?
And all the people which are in the gate will say, and the old men, Witnesses. Jehovah will give the woman coming into thy house as Rachel and as Leah, which they two built up the house of Israel: and make thou power in Ephratah, and call a name in the house of bread.
Behold, sons are the inheritance of Jehovah: the reward of the fruit of the womb. As arrows in the hand of the strong one, so are sons of youth. read more. Happy the man who filled his quiver from them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
And thy nativity, in the day thou wert born thy navel was not cut, and thou wert not washed in water for my looking upon; and salting, thou welt not salted, and swathing, thou wert not swathed.
And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a mangier; : for there was no place for them in the inn. And shepherds were in the country, sleeping in the fields, and watching over their flock the watches of the night. read more. And, behold, a messenger of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them : and they fear a great fear. And the messenger said to them, Fear not : for, behold, I announce you good news, great joy, which shall be to all people. For this day a Saviour was born to you, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.
And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.
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Ben, "son;" bath, "daughter;" both from baanah, to build. Regarded as consecrated to God, in the same covenant relation as the parents; therefore sons on the eighth day were circumcised (Ge 17:12). Hence, flowed parents' responsibility to rear children in the way of the Lord (Ge 18:19; De 6:7; 11:19); also children's responsibility to obey parents, as a preparatory discipline for the higher relationship to God. At five years of age, the boy passed under the father's training. At 12 he became "son of (i.e. subject to) the law," and was advanced to a fuller instruction in it. Smiting, or even cursing, a parent was punishable with death (Ex 21:15,17); also contumacy (De 21:18-21; compare De 27:16). The child might be sold to bondage until the Jubilee year for a parent's debt (2Ki 4:1; Ne 5:5).
Children were often nursed until they were three years old. They were carried on the mother's hip or shoulder (Isa 49:22; 66:12). Governors or tutors watched them in nonage (Nu 11:12; 2Ki 10:1,5; Isa 49:23; Ga 3:24, paidagoogos, the guardian slave who led the child to school). The mother's example and authority were weighty over sons and daughters alike (Pr 10:1; 15:20), even with a royal son (1Ki 2:19). Daughters had no right of inheritance; but if a man had no son the daughters received the inheritance, but they must marry inside their own tribe. Metaphorically: CHILDREN OF LIGHT (Lu 16:8; 1-24; 1Th 5:28), of obedience (1Pe 1:14, "as children of obedience" Greek), of this world, of Belial, of wisdom (Mt 11:19), of faith. (See BELIAL.)
As children resemble their parent, so those in whom these several qualities, good or bad, predominate, are children of them severally (2Sa 23:6). So Barnabas is termed "son of consolation," expressing his predominant grace (Ac 4:36); John and James "sons of thunder," characterized by fiery zeal (Mr 3:17). So "sons of might," "daughters of sons" (compare Isa 5:1, "a very fruitful hill," Hebrew: "the horn (i.e. peak) of the son of oil,") "children of the bridechamber" (Mt 9:15), the heavenly Bridgegroom's best men (friends) who go and fetch the bride, the apostles and evangelists who seek to bring sinners to Jesus and to heaven (Matthew 25).
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And the son of eight days shall be circumcised, every male of your generations being born in the house, and he bought with silver, from every son of the stranger which is not of thy seed.
And the son of eight days shall be circumcised, every male of your generations being born in the house, and he bought with silver, from every son of the stranger which is not of thy seed.
For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.
For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.
And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die.
And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die.
And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.
And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.
Did I form all this people? did I beget them? for thou wilt say to me, Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse will lift up the sucking child upon the land which thou swarest to their fathers.
Did I form all this people? did I beget them? for thou wilt say to me, Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse will lift up the sucking child upon the land which thou swarest to their fathers.
And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.
And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.
And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up
And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up
If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them:
If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them: And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place;
And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place; And they said to the old men of of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he heard not to our voice; he is vile, and drinking to excess.
And they said to the old men of of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he heard not to our voice; he is vile, and drinking to excess. And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.
And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.
Cursed he making light of his father and his mother: and all the people said, Amen.
Cursed he making light of his father and his mother: and all the people said, Amen.
And Belial as the thorn thrusting out are all they, for they will not be taken by the hand.
And Belial as the thorn thrusting out are all they, for they will not be taken by the hand.
And Bathsheba will go to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king will rise up to her meeting, and worship to her, and he sat upon his throne, and a throne will be set for the king's mother; and she will sit at his right hand.
And Bathsheba will go to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king will rise up to her meeting, and worship to her, and he sat upon his throne, and a throne will be set for the king's mother; and she will sit at his right hand.
And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.
And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.
And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.
And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.
A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.
A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.
I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:
I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:
Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will raise up my signal: and they brought thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be lifted up upon the shoulder.
Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will raise up my signal: and they brought thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be lifted up upon the shoulder. And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.
And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.
For thus said Jehovah, Behold me extending peace to her as a river, and as a torrent flowing to the glory of the nations: and ye sucked, ye shall be lifted upon the side, and ye shall be caressed Upon the knees.
For thus said Jehovah, Behold me extending peace to her as a river, and as a torrent flowing to the glory of the nations: and ye sucked, ye shall be lifted upon the side, and ye shall be caressed Upon the knees.
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the nuptial chamber cannot mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is with them; but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast.
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the nuptial chamber cannot mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is with them; but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.
And James, him of Zebedee, and John brother of James; and he set to them names Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:
And James, him of Zebedee, and John brother of James; and he set to them names Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:
And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.
And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.
And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the sent, (which is interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth,
And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the sent, (which is interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth,
So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith.
So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith.
As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:
As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:
Morish
David proclaimed, "Lo, children are an heritage of Jehovah: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Ps 127:3. Women in the East had a great desire for children, as may be seen by Sarah, Rachel, and Leah giving their handmaids to their husbands that they might have children by them, and this ever characterised the women of Israel afterwards.
The law commanded children to honour their parents, and if a son smote or cursed his parents he was put to death. Ex 21:15,17. Parents were to teach the law to their children, and to chastise them when needed, and if a son was disobedient and contumacious the men of the city were to stone such a one. De 21:18-21. The first born was claimed by God, and had to be redeemed, Ex 13:13; and the eldest son inherited a double portion of his father's possessions. De 21:17.
Metaphorically we meet with 'children of Zion,' 'children of Belial,' 'children of the devil,' etc., often referring to their moral character.
In the N.T. various Greek words are translated children in the A.V. Thus in 1 John, 'little children' occurs in 1Jo 2:1,12-13,18,28; and though correct, yet there is a difference in the words. 1Jo 2:1,12 and 28 refer to all Christians as God's children; but 1Jo 2:13 and 18 refer to young children or babes as a class, in contrast to young men and fathers. Again, in many places where the word is ????, and should be translated 'sons,' the A.V. has 'child' or 'children,' as in Ro 9:26-27; 2Co 3:7,13; Ga 3:7,26; Eph 2:2; 5:6; Col 3:6; 1Th 5:5; Heb 11:22; 12:5; Re 2:14; 7:4; 12:5; 21:12; besides often in the Gospels and Acts. See SON. Again, in Ac 4:27,30 the word is ????, which is as often translated 'servant' as 'child,' the word signifying both. In these verses it would be much better to translate 'thy holy servant Jesus;' David is also called 'servant' in Ac 4:25.
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And every first-born of the ass, thou shalt redeem with a sheep; and if thou shalt not redeem, thou shalt break his neck: and every first-born of man among thy sons thou shalt redeem.
And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die.
And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated, the first-born, to give to him the portion of two in all that shall be found to him; for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the judgment of the first-born. If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them: read more. And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place; And they said to the old men of of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he heard not to our voice; he is vile, and drinking to excess. And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.
Behold, sons are the inheritance of Jehovah: the reward of the fruit of the womb.
Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things
For against the truth were they gathered together against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and peoples of Israel,
In thy stretching out thy hand for healing; and signs and wonders to be for the name of thine holy child Jesus.
And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God. And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:
Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham.
For we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:
Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.
For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.
(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)
By faith Joseph, dying, made mention of the departure of the sons of Israel: and charged concerning his bones.
And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:
My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:
My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:
I write to you, little children, for your sins are let go for his name.
I write to you, little children, for your sins are let go for his name. I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father.
I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father.
Young children, it is the last hour: and as ye have heard that antichrist comes, and now many antichrists have come; whence we know that it is the last hour.
And now, little children, remain in him; that, when he be manifested, we might have freedom of speech, that we be not shamed from him in his presence.
But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
And I heard the number of the sealed: an hundred and fortyfour thousand sealed of all the tribes of the sons of Israel.
And she brought forth a son, a male, who is about to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her child was snatched up to God, and his throne.
And having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and the names inscribed, which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:
Smith
Children.
The blessing of offspring, but especially of the male sex, is highly valued among all eastern nations, while a the absence is regarded as one of the severest punishments.
Ge 16:2; De 7:14; 1Sa 1:6; 2Sa 6:23; 2Ki 4:14; Isa 47:9; Jer 20:15; Ps 127:3,5
As soon as the child was born it was washed in a bath, rubbed with salt and wrapped in swaddling clothes.
On the 8th day the rite of circumcision, in the case of a boy, was performed and a name given. At the end of a certain time (forty days if a son and twice as long if a daughter) the mother offered sacrifice for her cleansing.
Le 12; Lu 2:22
The period of nursing appears to have been sometimes prolonged to three years.
2 Macc. 7:27. The time of weaning was an occasion of rejoicing.
Both boys and girls in their early years were under the care of the women.
Afterwards the boys were taken by the father under his charge. Daughters usually remained in the women's apartments till marriage.
The authority of parents, especially of the father, over children was very great, as was also the reverence enjoined by the law to be paid to parents. The inheritance was divided equally between all the sons except the eldest, who received a double portion.
Ge 25:31; 49:3; De 21:17; Jg 11:2,7; 1Ch 5:1-2
Daughters had by right no portion in the inheritance; but if a man had no son, his inheritance passed to his daughters, who were forbidden to marry out of the father's tribe.
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And Sarai will say to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah restrained me from bringing forth; go now to my maid servant; perhaps I shall have children from her. And Abram will listen to the voice of Sarai.
And the child will become great, and shall be weaned; and Abraham will make a great drinking in the day of weaning Isaak.
Reuben, my first-born, thou my strength, and the beginning of my strength, the abundance of elevation, and the abundance of might
And the daughter of a man a priest, if she shall be profaned to commit fornication, it is profaning her father: she shall be burnt in fire.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, And her father spitting, spit in her face, shall she not be ashamed seven days? She shall be shut seven days without the camp, and afterward she shall be taken back.
And there will come near the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, for the families of Manesseh, son of Joseph: and these the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, A man when he shall die, and no son to him, and cause ye his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
And they will say, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
And every daughter possessing an inheritance from the tribe of the sons of Israel, to one of the families of the tribe of her father shall she be for wife, so that the sons of Israel shall possess each the inheritance of his fathers.
Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be in thee barren male and female, and in thy cattle.
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated, the first-born, to give to him the portion of two in all that shall be found to him; for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the judgment of the first-born.
And Gilead's wife will bring forth sons to him, and his wife's sons will grow, and they will drive out Jephthah, and they will say to him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house, for thou the son of another woman.
And Jephthah will say to the old men of Gilead, Did ye not hate me, and ye will drive me out from my father's house? and why came ye to me now when there is distress to you?
In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:
Behold, sons are the inheritance of Jehovah: the reward of the fruit of the womb.
Happy the man who filled his quiver from them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
The words of Lemuel the king, the lifting up which his mother will instruct him.
And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.
Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.
Cursed the man who announced to my father, Good news; saying, A son, a male was born to thee; with rejoicing, making him rejoice.
And thy nativity, in the day thou wert born thy navel was not cut, and thou wert not washed in water for my looking upon; and salting, thou welt not salted, and swathing, thou wert not swathed.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a mangier; : for there was no place for them in the inn.
And when the days of her cleansing were completed, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present to the Lord;