27 occurrences in 13 translations

'Children' in the Bible

And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east.

Verse ConceptsLivestockAbundance, MaterialLargenessSheepShepherds, As OccupationsYokesGod Is ImmanentFour To Five HundredThree Thousand And UpSeven ThousandOwning LivestockFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy Peoplepossessions

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought: Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts. This was Job’s regular practice.

Verse ConceptsCustomBad ParentsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenRising Early, Examples OfFamilies, Examples OfMorning DevotionsBurnt offeringOfferingsSonsWorldly Pleasures, Leads ToParents Duty To ChildrenRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyCursing GodMaking People HolyEarly RisingSacrificeKidsRoses

Some time later, when his children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house,

Verse ConceptsGod Is Holy

While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, "Your children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house

Verse ConceptsWhile Still Speaking

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Verse ConceptsAbortiondoubt, results ofMiscarriagesNever Being BornMiscarriages And Stillborn

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Verse Conceptsdefence, humanSafetyGod Is HolyChildren Suffering

You'll know that you'll have many children; and that your offspring will be like the grass of the earth.

Verse ConceptsGrassLike Grass

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

Verse ConceptsSin Clings To The Sinner

"If his children are honored, he doesn't know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.

Verse ConceptsThe Honourable Will Be HonouredThose Who Were Ignorant

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanFlatteryGiving Information

He has no children or descendants among his people,no survivor where he used to live.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsReasons For Barrenness

My breath is offensive to my wife,and my own family finds me repulsive.

Verse ConceptsOffencePeople Being Hatedreuniting

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

Verse ConceptsBlessings Of The Poor

Their children are established while they are still alive,and their descendants, before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsChildren Blessed

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Verse ConceptsSeeking FoodWild Donkeys

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersDebtorsPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The PoorTaking Other PeopleMotherhoodPurgatorybaby

How much less is man, who is only a maggot, or a man's children, who are only worms!"

Verse ConceptsSon Of ManMan, Insignificance OfMaggotsMere Menworms

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Verse ConceptsParents SinKilling Sons And Daughters

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

Verse ConceptsThe AlmightyGod With Specific People

Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

Verse ConceptsNestsFalse ConfidenceHomeSandSecurity, FalseResigned To DeathLiving LongSand And Gravel

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?

Verse ConceptsAstrologyConstellationsControlling Sun Moon And Stars

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Verse ConceptsKings And Pridearrogance

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsOld Age, Attainment OfFour GroupsAge At Death

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