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Isaiah 49:15
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Isaiah 49:15
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15 “Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child?
Can she feel no love for the child she has borne?
But even if that were possible,
I would not forget you!
Isaiah 49:15
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Isaiah 49:15
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Isaiah 44:21
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Isaiah 44:21
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Restoration for Jerusalem
21 “Pay attention, O Jacob,
for you are my servant, O Israel.
I, the Lord, made you,
and I will not forget you.
Isaiah 44:21
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Isaiah 44:21
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Psalm 103:13
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Psalm 103:13
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13 The Lord is like a father to his children,
tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
Psalm 103:13
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Psalm 103:13
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13 As a father has compassion(A) on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
Matthew 7:11
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Matthew 7:11
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11 So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
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Matthew 7:11
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Matthew 7:11
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11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts(A) to those who ask him!
Hosea 11:1
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Hosea 11:1
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The Lord’s Love for Israel
11 “When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and I called my son out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:1
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Hosea 11:1
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God’s Love for Israel
Jeremiah 31:20
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Jeremiah 31:20
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20 “Is not Israel still my son,
my darling child?” says the Lord.
“I often have to punish him,
but I still love him.
That’s why I long for him
and surely will have mercy on him.
Jeremiah 31:20
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Jeremiah 31:20
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Malachi 3:17
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Malachi 3:17
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17 “They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child.
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Malachi 3:17
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Malachi 3:17
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17 “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my(A) treasured possession.(B) I will spare(C) them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son(D) who serves him.
Lamentations 4:10
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 Tenderhearted women
have cooked their own children.
They have eaten them
to survive the siege.
Lamentations 4:10
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
2 Kings 6:28-29
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2 Kings 6:28-29
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28 But then the king asked, “What is the matter?”
She replied, “This woman said to me: ‘Come on, let’s eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Kill your son so we can eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”
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2 Kings 6:28-29
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2 Kings 6:28-29
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28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate(A) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
1 Kings 3:26-27
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1 Kings 3:26-27
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26 Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!”
But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”
27 Then the king said, “Do not kill the child, but give him to the woman who wants him to live, for she is his mother!”
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1 Kings 3:26-27
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1 Kings 3:26-27
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26 The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved(A) out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!”
But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”
27 Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.”
2 Kings 11:1-2
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2 Kings 11:1-2
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Queen Athaliah Rules in Judah
11 When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of the royal family. 2 But Ahaziah’s sister Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram,[a] took Ahaziah’s infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom, and they hid him from Athaliah, so the child was not murdered.
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- 11:2 Hebrew Joram, a variant spelling of Jehoram.
2 Kings 11:1-2
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2 Kings 11:1-2
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Athaliah and Joash(A)
11 When Athaliah(B) the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram[a] and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash(C) son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.(D)
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- 2 Kings 11:2 Hebrew Joram, a variant of Jehoram
Romans 11:28-29
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Romans 11:28-29
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28 Many of the people of Israel are now enemies of the Good News, and this benefits you Gentiles. Yet they are still the people he loves because he chose their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 29 For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.
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Romans 11:28-29
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Romans 11:28-29
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28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies(A) for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,(B) 29 for God’s gifts and his call(C) are irrevocable.(D)
Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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56 The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter. 57 She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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56 The most gentle and sensitive(A) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter(B) 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them(C) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
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