Verse 14

If his children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not have enough bread.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:41 : 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.
  • Job 20:10 : 10 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will return his wealth.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act.
  • Job 21:11-12 : 11 They release their young like a flock, and their children skip about. 12 They sing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoice to the sound of the flute.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 May his descendants be cut off, and may their name be wiped out in the next generation.
  • Hos 9:13-14 : 13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered. 14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'
  • 2 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 You shall strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD's servants shed by Jezebel. 8 The entire house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off every male from Ahab's line, both slave and free, in Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 10:6-9 : 6 Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, "If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow." Now the king’s sons, seventy in all, were being raised by the prominent men of the city. 7 When the letter reached them, they took the king’s sons, slaughtered all seventy of them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel. 8 When the messenger arrived and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king’s sons," Jehu said, "Place them in two piles at the entrance of the gate until morning." 9 In the morning, he went out, stood before all the people, and said, "You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? 10 Know, then, that not a word of the LORD will fall to the ground that He spoke concerning the house of Ahab. The LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah."
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth, the number of his sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the officials and servants of the king.
  • Esth 9:5-9 : 5 The Jews struck down their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they dealt with those who hated them as they pleased. 6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. 7 They also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8 and Poratha, Adalia, and Aridatha, 9 and Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He does not believe he will return from the darkness; he is marked for the sword.