Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of 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 sight.
When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."
And he lift up his eyes and saw the wives and their children, and said, "What are these which thou there hast?" And he said, "They are the children which God hath given thy servant."
Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.
And God almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man and send you your other brother and also Benjamin, and I will be as a man robbed of his children."
And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'
"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.
And he that curseth his father or mother, shall be put to death for it.
Thou shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto Moloch, that thou defile not the name of thy God, for I am the LORD.
See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.
"Tell the children of Israel, whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that dwell in Israel that giveth of his seed unto Moloch, he shall die for it: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face upon that fellow, and will destroy him from among his people: because he hath given of his seed unto Moloch, for to defile my sanctuary and to pollute mine holy name. read more. And though that the people of the land hide their eyes from that fellow, when he giveth of his seed unto Moloch, so that they kill him not: yet I will put my face upon that man and upon his household, and will destroy him and all that go a whoring with him and commit whoredom with Moloch from among their people.
But in any wise let him not hold too many horses, that he bring not the people again to Egypt through the multitude of horses, forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, 'Ye shall henceforth go no more again that way.'
If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them: Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place, read more. and say unto the elders of the city, 'This, our son, is stubborn and disobedient and will not hearken unto our voice; he is a rioter and a drunkard.' Then let all the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
And after the two months she turned again unto her father, which did with her according to his vow which he had vowed, and so she knew no man.
And thereto her enemy Peninnah vexed her a good in casting her in the teeth how the LORD had made her barren.
Moreover, his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from feast to feast when she came up with her husband to offer the offering of the said feast.
And David besought God for the boy and fasted and went and lay all night upon the earth.
And he went from thence up to Bethel. And as he was going up in the way, there came little lads out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, thou bald head! Go up thou baldhead!" And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.
And when the lad was grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, to the harvest time.
Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD.
Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table.
But I refrain my soul and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother; Yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.
My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but whoso loveth him, chastiseth him betimes.
A fool despiseth his father's correction; but he that taketh heed when he is reproved, shall have the more understanding.
If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.
The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.
For why? Before the child shall have knowledge to say 'Abi' and 'Im'," - that is, father, and mother - "the riches of Damascus and the substance of Samaria shall be taken away, through the king of the Assyrians."
Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, and the Leopard shall lie down by the goat. Bullocks, Lions and cattle shall keep company together, so that a little child shall rule them. The cow and the Bear shall feed together, and their young ones shall lie together. The Lion shall eat straw like the ox, or the cow. read more. The child while he sucketh, shall have a desire to the serpents nest, and when he is weaned, he shall put his hand in to the Cockatrice den. No man shall do evil to another, no man shall destroy another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, even as though the water of the sea flowed over the earth.
For he said, "These no doubt will be my people, and no shrinking children," and so he was their Saviour. In their troubles he forsook them not, but the angel that went forth from his presence delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them: He hath born them, and carried them up ever since the world began. read more. But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.
They have builded high places for Baal in the valley of the children of Hinnom, to cause their sons and daughters to pass through fire in honor of Moloch: which I never commanded them, neither came it ever in my thought, to make Judah sin with such abomination.
And the streets of the city shall be filled with boys and wenches playing in the streets thereof.
The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them 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 loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth me, is not meet for me.
At that time, Jesus answered and said, "I praise thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast opened them unto babes,
and said, "Verily, I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
"This wise hath God dealt with me, in the days when he looked on me, to take from me the rebuke that I suffered among men."
and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.'
A woman when she travaileth hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.