67 occurrences in 13 translations

'Sons' in the Bible

And He saith unto Me, 'Son of man, I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto nations who are rebels, who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, unto this self-same day.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionMissionaries, Call OfSon Of ManAncestorsFalse Religion To This DayGod Sending ProphetsLeaders SinningDisunityrebellion

And the sons are brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah:

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineWord Of GodApathyHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleCharacter Of WickedSpeaking As From GodDisunity

and go, enter in unto the Removed, unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spoken unto them, and hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: whether they hear, or whether they forbear.'

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivinePeople ExiledPaying Attention To PeopleSpeaking As From God

And Jehovah saith, 'Thus do the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations whither I drive them.'

Verse ConceptsExile In ProspectUnclean Thingspoop

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismGod Scattering IsraelSurvivors ThreatenedFathers And SonsDadsFathers And Daughters

And put the carcases of the sons of Israel before their idols, And scattered your bones round about your altars.

Verse ConceptsBonesFate Of IdolatersIn Front

Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

Verse ConceptsThree MenChildren SufferingSaving Oneself

Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

Verse ConceptsThree MenChildren SufferingSaving Oneself

even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were among them, as I live" says the Lord GOD, "they couldn't save their own sons or daughters. They would only save their own souls due to their own righteousness."

Verse ConceptsChildren SufferingSaving Oneself

Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSurvivors Of IsraelGod Has ComfortedGod Turned Back From Harming Them

Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

Verse ConceptsIdol WorshipUnimportant Things

you also slaughtered my sons and offered them to idols, incinerating them in fire.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeIdol Worship

And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours -- great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger.

Verse ConceptsProvokingProvoking GodSexual Immorality

And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without thy being satisfied, And thou dost go a-whoring with them, And also -- thou hast not been satisfied.

Verse ConceptsInsatiablewhores

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because your lust has been poured out and your nakedness has been uncovered by your acts of fornication with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your sons, whom you offered to them,

Verse ConceptsNakednessHuman Blood ShedIdol WorshipFate Of IdolatersPrivate Parts

Thy mother's daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersSpiritual MothersRelated NationsHating IndividualsMothersmomsMothers Love For Her ChildrenMothers And SonsFathers And Daughters

And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanPeople Exiledroyalty

What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Destruction OfTeethInfidelity To GodParents SinDentistrySins Of The FathersChildren SufferingOld SayingsFathers Responsibilitiesgrandfathersparenthood

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsFalse ReligionExamples, Badevil, warnings againstChildren, attitudes towardsNot Imitating EvilPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryParents Being Wrongstatues

And -- the sons rebel against Me, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have not observed -- to do them, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them. My sabbaths they have polluted, And I say to pour out My fury upon them, To complete Mine anger against them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsWorks Of The Law

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSacrifice, In OtInfanticideDegradationNot Enquiring Of GodPeople Polluting ThemselvesIdol WorshipFalse Religion To This DayKilling Sons And Daughters

A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem -- the fenced.

Verse ConceptsFortifications

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness!

Verse ConceptsSparklingGod's Sword

I will pour out My indignation on you [sons of Ammon]; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will place you in the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodSkillThose Who DestroyFire Of God's AngerSkilled People

And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

Verse ConceptsRelated NationsPeople Belong To God

And she giveth her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them -- even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she hath been defiled.

Verse ConceptsPeople Polluting ThemselvesIdol Worship

Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted.

These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

Verse ConceptsTortureNakedness Uncovered

On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones -- clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them.

Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers -- all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth.

Verse ConceptsBeltsHead coveringWaistsOfficersDyeingHeadgear

And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

Verse ConceptsBedsPeople Being PollutedSpiritual HarlotrySex Between Nations

Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, All the sons of Asshur with them, Desirable young men, governors and prefects, All of them -- rulers and proclaimed ones, Riding on horses, all of them.

And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod, Zeal OfJealousyMutilationNosesDisfigurementSurvivors DestroyedKilled With The SwordBurning PeopleChildren SufferingSevering Body Parts

That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsKilling Sons And Daughters

When they killed their sons as offerings to their idols, they brought them to my sanctuary and defiled it. Look what they've done with my Temple!

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeFood Offered To IdolsKilling Sons And Daughters

And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesFear Of StoningKilling Sons And Daughters

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Verse ConceptsFortressesKilled With The SwordChildren SufferingPolluting Holy Places

Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

Verse ConceptsThe Glory Of Man

'Son of man, set thy face unto the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfFacing

and thou hast said to the sons of Ammon: Hear ye a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy saying, Aha, to My sanctuary, Because it hath been polluted, And unto the ground of Israel, Because it hath been desolate, And unto the house of Judah, Because they have gone into a removal:

Verse ConceptsExile Of Judah To BabylonPolluting Holy PlacesRejoicing In Evil

Therefore, lo, I am giving thee to sons of the east for a possession, And they set their towers in thee, And have placed in thee their tabernacles. They eat thy fruit, and they drink thy milk,

Verse ConceptsMilkNomadsSeeking Food

And I have given Rabbah for a habitation of camels, And the sons of Ammon for the crouching of a flock, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.

To the sons of the east, with the sons of Ammon, And I have given it for a possession, So that the sons of Ammon are not remembered among nations.

Verse ConceptsForgetting People

The sons of Arvad, and thy force, Are on thy walls round about, And short swordsmen in thy towers have been, Their shields they have hung up on thy walls round about, They -- they have perfected thy beauty.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsWarriorsWalled TownsPeople Made Perfect

Sons of Dedan are thy merchants, Many isles are the mart of thy hand, Horns of ivory and ebony they sent back thy reward.

Verse ConceptsIvoryCommerce

And lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, And they have lamented over thee, who is as Tyre? As the cut-off one in the midst of the sea?

Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, And the sons of the land of the covenant with them by sword do fall,

Verse ConceptsAfricaKilled With The Sword

In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

Son of man, speak unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast said unto them: A land -- when I bring in against it a sword, And the people of the land have taken one man out of their borders, And made him to them for a watchman.

Verse ConceptsSwordsWatchman

And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.

Verse ConceptsPeople In RighteousnessThings Which Cannot Save

And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them -- their way is not pondered.

Verse ConceptsIs God Unjust?

And thou, son of man, the sons of thy people who are speaking about thee, By the walls, and in openings of the houses, Have spoken one with another, each with his brother, Saying: Come in, I pray you, And hear what is the word that cometh out from Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodConversation

Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

Verse ConceptsMalice, Examples OfEternal Evil

'And thou, son of man, take to thee one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel, his companions; and take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions,

Verse ConceptsCymbalsNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

And when sons of thy people speak unto thee, saying, Dost thou not declare to us what these are to thee?

Verse ConceptsMeaning

and speak thou unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am taking the sons of Israel, From among the nations whither they have gone, And have gathered them from round about, And I have brought them in unto their land.

Verse ConceptsGathering Israelreunitingrejuvenation

And they have dwelt on the land that I gave to My servant, to Jacob, In which your fathers have dwelt, And they have dwelt on it, they and their sons, And their son's sons -- unto the age, And David My servant is their prince -- to the age.

Verse ConceptsPrincesChrist Reigning ForeverChildren Are A BlessingLiving In The Land

And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

Verse Conceptsdrawing near to GodPriesthood, In OtSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfFacing NorthSetting Up The Bronze AltarRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

and He saith unto me: 'Son of man, the place of My throne, And the place of the soles of My feet, Where I dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel to the age, Defile no more do the house of Israel My holy name, They, and their kings, by their whoredom, And by the carcases of their kings -- their high places.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfCarcass, Figurative UseHigh PlacesNames And Titles For The ChurchGod Living With UsProfaning God's NameSpiritual HarlotryCare Of FeetRules About Corpses

In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesPollutionsForeigners In The Holy PlacesBreaking The CovenantFat Of The SacrificesUncircumcised In HeartCovenant Made At Sinai

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who is in the midst of the sons of Israel,

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessForeigners In The Holy PlacesStrangers in israel

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To Goddrawing near to GodBlood Of SacrificesServanthood, And Worship Of GodPeople Going AstrayFat Of The Sacrifices

Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

Verse ConceptsReal Estate

But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.

Verse ConceptsCancellation Of DeptPeople Possessing Other ThingsReversion Of Thingslegacy

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityDo Not Steal

and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelAliens

It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Going Astray

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