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To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
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Sarai and Hagar
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
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And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
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And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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Now after these things it was told to Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
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The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
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The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
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Jacob's Children
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
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Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.”
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When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
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Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”
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All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
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Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.
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Jacob Wrestles with God
The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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Jacob Meets Esau
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.
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And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
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And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
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Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down.
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Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
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But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.
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Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
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These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
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And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”
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May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
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And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.’
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You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
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as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
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But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
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So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”
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When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews' children.”
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Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
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But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
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Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
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And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
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And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
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But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
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You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
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But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
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“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
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and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
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keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
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Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the Lord's food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”
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You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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“Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
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I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.
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And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,
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“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.
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Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.
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And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.
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And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
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But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.
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But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
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‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’
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And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’
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And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
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And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.
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“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—
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how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’
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“When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
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Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
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You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
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And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,
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You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
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that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
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You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
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Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
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that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,
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Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the Lord.
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“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
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The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
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so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
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her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick—
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“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,
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and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
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They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.
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And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
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“Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land.”
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he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.
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who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.
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that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’
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And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’
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then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’
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So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
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And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’
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No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?
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For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord.
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but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’
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And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
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There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.
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And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
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He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.
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Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home.
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Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.”
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but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”
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then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
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But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
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‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.’”
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The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.”
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Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”
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Elisha and the Widow's Oil
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
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But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”
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and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
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So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
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They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
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Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
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Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.
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The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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David's Wives and Children
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.
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These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
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O offspring of Israel his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
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But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.
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Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
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then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
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Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,
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But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”
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For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
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They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.
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Rebuilding the Altar
When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
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Fasting and Prayer for Protection
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
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Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
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The People Confess Their Sin
While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
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Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
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All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.
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Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
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And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.
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And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.
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Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
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saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,
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And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
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Satan Takes Job's Property and Children
Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
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His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
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He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
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My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
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Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
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His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
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They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.
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You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
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Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
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If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.
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when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,
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Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
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The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
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The Faithful Have Vanished
To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
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On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.
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The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
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from men by your hand, O Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.
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You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.
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Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!
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The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
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Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
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How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
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I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
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He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
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For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
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God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
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My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
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God Who Judges the Earth
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.
Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
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Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
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May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
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If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
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We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
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He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
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that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
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Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah
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If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
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Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
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You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
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Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
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The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.
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As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
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But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
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O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
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Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
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Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
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Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
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Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
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May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
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May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
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Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
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He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
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May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
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The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
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Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
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Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.
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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
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May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
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to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
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For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
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Young men and maidens together, old men and children!
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Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
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“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man.
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rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
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A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
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In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
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Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord; how much more the hearts of the children of man!
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Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
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The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
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Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
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And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
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I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
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I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
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I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.
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For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
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If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
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Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
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This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
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The Wickedness of Judah
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
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Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
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The Day of the Lord
For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
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Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.
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The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts.
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In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
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For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
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Do Not Go Down to Egypt
“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
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For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;
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Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
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They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
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The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
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Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
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Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:
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These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.
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The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: ‘The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.’
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For thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
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As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
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The Eternal Covenant of Peace
“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.
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All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
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Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,
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you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”
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For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
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For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely.” And he became their Savior.
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They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.
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Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
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“Therefore I still contend with you, declares the Lord, and with your children's children I will contend.
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In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
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Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
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“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
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“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.
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Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.
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The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
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For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
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My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains.
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while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
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Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
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Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know?
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Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.
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Thus says the Lord: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
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There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.
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In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.’
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You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts,
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great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
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For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the Lord.
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because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
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When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,
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Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon.
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the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.
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At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,
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But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
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Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”
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Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
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“For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”
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“Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.”
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Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.
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The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.
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The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”
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Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
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that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
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Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
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You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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“What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?
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“And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
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When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
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For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
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For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
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All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.
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I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
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Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’
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therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God.
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They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
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You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
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and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.
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He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.
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And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.
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And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.
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Hosea's Wife and Children
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
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And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
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Hosea Redeems His Wife
And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”
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For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
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Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
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The Lord Accuses Israel
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
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Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
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Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
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Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.
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therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
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They shall go after the Lord; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;
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Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
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The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.
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gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
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“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
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Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
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The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
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A Remnant Shall Be Delivered
Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.
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Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.
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Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.
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Robbing God
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
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And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
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Herod Kills the Children
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
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“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”
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And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
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If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
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“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,
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Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
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And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”
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Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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Let the Children Come to Me
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people,
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but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,
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saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’
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Lament over Jerusalem
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
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“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,
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And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”
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But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”
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Let the Children Come to Me
And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.
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But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
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And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
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who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
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And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
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And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God,
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and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
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Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
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They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
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Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”
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Jesus Rejoices in the Father's Will
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
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and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?
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If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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Let the Children Come to Me
Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
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But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
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And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
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and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.
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and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.
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But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
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You Are of Your Father the Devil
They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,
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and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
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Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
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Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.”
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For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
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“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
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But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
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this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
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When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city. And kneeling down on the beach, we prayed
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and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
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and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
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and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
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This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,
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I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
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Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
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In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.
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Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
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In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
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my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
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Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
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Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
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For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”
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Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
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So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
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among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
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so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
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Walk in Love
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
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for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
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Children and Parents
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
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Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
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Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
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But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
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For you know how, like a father with his children,
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For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
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He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
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Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
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But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
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and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.
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So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
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if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
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and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
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And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”
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Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
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If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
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As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
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as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
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They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
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Christ Our Advocate
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
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I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.
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I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.
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Warning Concerning Antichrists
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
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Children of God
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
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See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
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Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
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Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
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By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
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Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
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Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
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Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
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Greeting
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
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Walking in Truth and Love
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
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The children of your elect sister greet you.
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I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
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and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
