Job 27:14
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14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword,
and their offspring have not enough to eat.(A)
Deuteronomy 28:41
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41 You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.(A)
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Luke 23:29
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29 For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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Job 20:10
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10 Their children will seek the favor of the poor,
and their hands will give back their wealth.(A)
Hosea 9:13-14
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13 Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow,[a]
but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.(A)
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
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- 9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 109:13
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13 May his posterity be cut off;
may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(A)
Job 21:11-12
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11 They send out their little ones like a flock,
and their children dance around.
12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre
and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.(A)
Job 15:22
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22 They despair of returning from darkness,
and they are destined for the sword.(A)
Esther 9:5-10
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5 So the Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. 6 In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred people. 7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, 8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, 9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not touch the plunder.(A)
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Esther 5:11
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11 and Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king.(A)
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2 Kings 10:6-10
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6 Then he wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the leaders of the city, who were charged with their upbringing. 7 When the letter reached them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, seventy persons; they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.(A) 8 When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.” 9 Then in the morning when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?(B) 10 Know, then, that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord that the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what he said through his servant Elijah.”(C)
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2 Kings 9:7-8
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7 You shall strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the Lord.(A) 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.(B)
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1 Samuel 2:5
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5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
but those who were hungry are fat with spoil.
The barren has borne seven,
but she who has many children is forlorn.(A)
Deuteronomy 28:32
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32 Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.(A)
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