Behold, (A)children are a heritage from the Lord,
(B)The fruit of the womb is a (C)reward.

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Your wife shall be (A)like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your (B)children (C)like olive plants
All around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.

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“Blessed shall be (A)the [a]fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:4 offspring

27 (A)For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.

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And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?”

So he said, “The children (A)whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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18 (A)Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!
We (B)are for signs and wonders in Israel
From the Lord of hosts,
Who dwells in Mount Zion.

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and said to me, ‘Behold, I will (A)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and (B)give this land to your descendants after you (C)as an everlasting possession.’

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28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and (B)subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that [a]moves on the earth.”

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  1. Genesis 1:28 moves about on

(A)Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of [a]the River, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his [b]descendants and (B)gave him Isaac. To Isaac I gave (C)Jacob and Esau. To (D)Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, (E)but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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  1. Joshua 24:3 The Euphrates
  2. Joshua 24:3 Lit. seed

Samuel Is Born and Dedicated

19 Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah (A)knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord (B)remembered her. 20 So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name [a]Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Lit. Heard by God

Jacob’s Children

30 Now when Rachel saw that (A)she bore Jacob no children, Rachel (B)envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, (C)or else I die!”

And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, (D)Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn [a]Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my (A)father’s house.” 52 And the name of the second he called [b]Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be (B)fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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  1. Genesis 41:51 Lit. Making Forgetful
  2. Genesis 41:52 Lit. Fruitfulness

60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her:

“Our sister, may you become
(A)The mother of thousands of ten thousands;
(B)And may your descendants possess
The gates of those who hate them.”

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And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who (A)will come from your own body shall be your heir.” Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and (B)count the (C)stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, (D)“So shall your (E)descendants be.”

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(A)And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) (B)He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

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20 And Eli (A)would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “The Lord give you descendants from this woman for the [a]loan that was (B)given to the Lord.” Then they would go to their own home.

21 And the Lord (C)visited[b] Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile the child Samuel (D)grew before the Lord.

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  1. 1 Samuel 2:20 gift
  2. 1 Samuel 2:21 attended to

18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.

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