18 Bible Verses about Two Sons

Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;

Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.

Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my care, and I will return him to you.”

At this remark, Moses fled and became an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.

Your maidservant had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, so one struck the other and killed him.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’

And He said, “A man had two sons.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They *said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.

And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She *said to Him, “Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.