Quotes about Children
Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,
— Joshua 1:14
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
— Joshua 4:6
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
— Joshua 4:21
On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
— Joshua 14:9
Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
— Judges 13:2
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
— Judges 21:10
And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
— 1 Samuel 2:20
but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
— 1 Samuel 30:22
These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
— 2 Samuel 5:14
The messengers came back and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘I have sent to you to demand your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.
— 1 Kings 20:5
Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”
— 1 Kings 20:7
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
— 2 Kings 4:1