Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a male child the LORD."
He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"
When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. "Who are these people with you?" he asked.
All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, "Leave me alone! I'll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
and may God Almighty cause the man to show compassion toward you. May he send all of you back, including your other brother and Benjamin. Now as for me, if I lose my children, I lose them."
and we answered Your Excellency, "We have an aged father and a younger child who was born when he was old. His brother is now dead, so he's the only surviving son of his mother. His father loves him.'
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
"Whoever strikes his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
"Whoever curses his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
"You are not to present any of your children to Molech as a sacrifice. That way, you won't defile the name of your God."
"Each of you is to fear his mother and father. "Observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
"Tell the Israelis that when an Israeli or a resident alien who lives in Israel offers his child to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death. The people who live in the land are to stone him with stones. As for me, I'll oppose that man. I'll eliminate him from contact with his people for sacrificing his children to Molech, thereby defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name. read more. If the people avoid dealing with that man when he offers his child to Molech that is, if they fail to execute him then I'll oppose that man and his family and eliminate him from contact with his people, along with all the prostitutes who accompany him and who have committed prostitution with Molech."
Only he must not amass horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt to obtain more horses. For the LORD said you must never return that way again.
"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them, then his parents are to seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city. read more. Then they are to declare to the elders of their city: "Our son is stubborn and rebellious. He does not obey us. He lives wildly and is a drunkard.' Then all the men of his city are to stone him with boulders so that he dies. This is how you will remove this evil from among you. Then all Israel will hear of it and will be afraid."
""Cursed is the one who treats his father and mother with dishonor.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'
Later, after the two months were concluded, she returned to her father, and he fulfilled what he had solemnly vowed and she never married. That's how the custom arose in Israel
Now the LORD had closed her womb. Her rival would provoke her severely so that she complained loudly because the LORD had closed her womb.
His mother would make a small robe for him, and she would bring it each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
After this, the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah's wife had born to David, and the child became very ill. David begged God on behalf of the youngster. He fasted, went inside, and spent the night lying on the ground.
Later, Elisha left there to go up to Bethel, and as he was traveling along the road, some insignificant young men came from the city and started mocking him. They told him, "Get on up, baldy! Get on up, baldy!" He looked behind him, took note of the young men, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears emerged from the woods and mauled 42 of the young men.
After the child had grown up a bit, one day he went out to visit his father, who was with the harvesters.
He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!
Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table.
Instead, I have composed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am like a weaned child.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.
because the LORD corrects the person he loves, just as a father corrects the son he delights in.
Whoever does not discipline his son hates him, but whoever loves him is diligent to correct him.
A fool rejects his father's instructions, but anyone who respects reproof acts sensibly.
Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.
The rod and rebuke bestow wisdom, but an undisciplined child brings shame to his mother.
for before the young lad knows how to call out to his father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."
"The wolf will live with the lamb; the leopard will lie down with the young goat. The calf and the lion will graze together, and a little child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze, and their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. read more. The nursing child will play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on vipers' dens. They will neither harm nor destroy on my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
For he said, "Surely they are my people, children who won't act falsely." And so he became their savior. In all their distress he wasn't distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old. read more. Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; so he changed and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
They built the high places of Baal that are in the Hinnom Valley in order to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech something that I didn't command, nor did it ever enter my mind for them to require this utterly repugnant thing and lead Judah into sin."
The city parks will be filled with boys and girls. They will play in the city's open parks.'
"Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.
I came to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A person's enemies will include members of his own family.' read more. "The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. The one who doesn't take up his cross and follow me isn't worthy of me.
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.
Then he said, "I tell all of you with certainty, unless you change and become like little children, you will never get into the kingdom from heaven.
"This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace."
I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'
When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.