Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel his second born, Aharah his third born,

Nohah his fourth born, and Rapha his fifth born.

"You have shed a lot of blood and fought great battles. You won't be building a house for my name, since you have shed so much blood on the earth in my sight. But look! A son born to you will live comfortably, because I will give him rest from all his enemies that surround him on every side, since his name will be "Solomon" - I will give peace and quiet for Israel during his lifetime.

Furthermore, his son Shemaiah had sons born to him who wielded authority in their ancestral households, since they were mighty men of valor.

"Therefore, since you determined to build a temple for my name, you acted well, because it was your choice to do so. Nevertheless, you are not to build the Temple, but your son who will be born to you is to build a temple for my name.'

So let's make a promise to our God by which we divorce all of these foreign wives as well as those born to them in accordance with the counsel of our Lord and of those who tremble at our God's command. Furthermore, let it be done according to the Law.

Seven sons and three daughters had been born to him.

After this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born.

"Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, "It's a boy!'

Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

But mankind is born headed for trouble, just as sparks soar skyward."

An empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born a human being!"

Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.

"Were you the first personto be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

You should know! After all, you had been born back then, so the number of your days is great!

They will come and declare his righteousness to a people yet to be born; indeed, he has accomplished it! A Davidic Psalm.

in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.

I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me including Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia "This one was born there," they say.

Indeed, about Zion it will be said: "More than one person was born in it," and "The Most High himself did it."

The LORD will record, as he registers the nations, "This one was born there." Interlude

As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one's youth.

I acquired male and female slaves, and had other slaves born in my house. I also acquired for myself increasing numbers of herds and flocks more than anyone who had lived before me in Jerusalem.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted;

Better than both of them is someone who has not yet been born, because he hasn't experienced evil on earth.

The former can come out of prison to reign, while the latter, even if born to kingship, may become poor.

and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances. Then a son is born, but there is nothing left for him.

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Their bows will dash the young men to pieces; they'll show no pity on those not yet born, and their eyes will not spare children.

We were pregnant, writhing in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your victory on earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world been born."

"Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted.

Who has ever heard of such a thing? And who ever sees such things? Can a country be born in a single day, or can a nation be brought forth in a single moment? Yet no sooner was Zion in labor than she delivered her children.

"I knew you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart for me before you were born; I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

"Is Israel a slave, or was he born a servant? Why then has he become plunder?

For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters who are born in this place, about their mothers who give birth to them, and about their fathers who father them in this land:

Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.

Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, "A baby boy has been born to you," making him very happy.

I'll hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land where you were not born, and there you will die.

Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn't cut. You weren't washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it's certain that you weren't wrapped in strips of cloth.

Nobody pitied you to do any of these things for you, and nobody showed you any compassion. You were tossed outside on the ground, because you were detested from the day you were born.

Girded with waistbands around their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looked like chariot officers, similar to the Babylonians from Chaldea, where they had been born.

because they've committed adultery, and blood covers their hands. They've also committed adultery with their idols, making their sons born to me to pass through the fire as an offering to them.

dividing it by lottery among yourselves and among the foreigners who live among you and bear children among you. You are to treat them like native-born Israelis. Among you they, too, are to be allotted an inheritance with the tribes of Israel.

Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.

When the time of childbirth comes, he will be so foolish that he will refuse to be born."

Now this is what the Lord has decreed about you, Nineveh: "There will be no more children born to carry on your name. I will cut out the graven and molten images from the temples of your gods. I myself will dig your grave, because you are vile."

Is there seed left in the granary? Up until now, neither the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, nor the olive tree has borne fruit, but from this very day I will bless you.'"

After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men arrived in Jerusalem from the east

and asked, "Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

He called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah was to be born.

I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

because he will be great in the Lord's presence. He will never drink wine or any strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.

Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David.

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

"At this time Moses was born. He was beautiful in the sight of God, and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

That is, it is not merely the children born through natural descent who were regarded as God's children, but it is the children born through the promise who were regarded as descendants.

Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

and finally he was seen by me, as though I were born abnormally late.

Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and were not afraid of the king's order.

For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.

because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.

Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and knocked them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.

Then I'll come down and speak with you. I'll take some of the spirit that rests on you and apportion it among them, so that they may help you bear the burden of the people. That way, you won't bear it by yourself."

Later, the LORD told Aaron, "You, your sons, and your father's tribe with you are to bear the iniquity of the sanctuary. Also, you and your sons with you are to bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

God also told them, "Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food.

Then she conceived yet again, bore a son, and said, "This time I'll praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing children.

Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, and

Then she bore yet another son and named him Shelah. Judah was living in Kezib when she bore him.

"Now as for you, you are to sleep on your left side, symbolically bearing the punishment of the house of Israel while you're counting the days you'll be sleeping on your left side to bear symbolically the punishment for their sin.

Indeed, how can I bear to see this disaster happen to my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my kinsmen?"

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

So now, bear your own shame as you mediate for your sisters. The sins that you've committed are more detestable than theirs. That makes them more righteous than you. Indeed, be ashamed and bear your reproach, because you've made your sisters to be more righteous than you."