50 Bible Verses about Death Of A Child

On the seventh day the baby died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him the baby was dead. They said, “Look, while the baby was alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. So how can we tell him the baby is dead? He may do something desperate.”

During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him.

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I’ll go to him, but he will never return to me.”

The death of His faithful ones
is valuable in the Lord’s sight.

Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

for Death has climbed through our windows;
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.

I will kill her children with the plague. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

“As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.

“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,

His servants asked him, “What did you just do? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.”

Run out to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your son all right?’”

And she answered, “Everything’s all right.”

Discipline your son while there is hope;
don’t be intent on killing him.

“No,” the other woman said. “My son is the living one; your son is the dead one.”

The first woman said, “No, your son is the dead one; my son is the living one.” So they argued before the king.

When Elisha got to the house, he discovered the boy lying dead on his bed.

I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

Look, every life belongs to Me. The life of the father is like the life of the son—both belong to Me. The person who sins is the one who will die.

“Leave,” He said, “because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” And they started laughing at Him.

As she was dying, the women taking care of her said, “Don’t be afraid. You’ve given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay attention.

“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. That morning, when I looked closely at him I realized that he was not the son I gave birth to.”

The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.

In her, a nursing infant will no longer live
only a few days,
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,
and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.

So the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too.

So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;
if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “So repent and live!

saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, because those who sought the child’s life are dead.”

After the death of Moses the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, who had served Moses:

Strike him with a rod,
and you will rescue his life from Sheol.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.

These two things will happen to you
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.

and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.

With her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they were no more.

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

However, he did not put the children of the murderers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the Lord commanded, “Fathers must not be put to death because of children, and children must not be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

“When brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”