Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children which God has graciously given your servant.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.
Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
And you shall not let any of your children pass through the fire to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his children unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his children unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. read more. And if the people of the land do in any way hide their eyes from the man, when he gives of his children unto Molech, and kill him not: Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot with him, to commit harlotry after Molech, from among their people.
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: since as the LORD has said unto you, you shall return no more that way again.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; read more. And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, so that he dies: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Cursed be he that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
And her adversary also provoked her severely to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
And he went up from there unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth youths out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, you bald head; go up, you bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two of the youths.
And when the child was grown, on a certain day, he went out to his father to the reapers.
He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.
Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.
A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. read more. And the nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. read more. But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. read more. He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants.
A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour has come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.