'Children' in the Bible

And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people.

And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

Ye say , God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

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

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

They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

Thou art fairer than the children of men; Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.

If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;

That the generation to come might know them , even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children.

The children of thy servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before thee.

He made known his ways unto Moses, His doings unto the children of Israel.

Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.

Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.

The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah; But the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

Yea, see thou thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.

Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

Both young men and virgins; Old men and children:

And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye Jehovah.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband also , and he praiseth her,'saying :

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are'soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.

In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

But thus saith Jehovah, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.