Children

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 115:14 OT

  May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.

• Psalms 127:4 OT

  As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

• Psalms 127:5 OT

  Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

• Genesis 15:6 OT

  He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

• Genesis 17:17 OT

  Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

• Luke 1:18 NT

  Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

• Exodus 13:12 OT

  that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s.

• Exodus 13:13 OT

  Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

• Exodus 13:15 OT

  When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all…

• Jeremiah 20:15 OT

  Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.

• Galatians 4:1 NT

  But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,

• Galatians 4:2 NT

  but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

• 1 Samuel 9:3 OT

  The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys.”

• 1 Samuel 17:15 OT

  Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

• Deuteronomy 21:16 OT

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17 OT

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• Luke 12:13 NT

  One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

• Luke 12:14 NT

  But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

• Genesis 27:1-4 OT

  When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.” He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death. Now therefore, please…

• Genesis 48:15 OT

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 49:1-33 OT

  Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. “Reuben, you are my…

• Genesis 35:8 OT

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

• Genesis 24:13 OT

  Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

• Exodus 2:16 OT

  Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.