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Ecclesiastes 6:3
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Ecclesiastes 6:3
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3 A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(A) child is better off than he.(B)
Job 3:16
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Job 3:16
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Jeremiah 22:19
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Jeremiah 22:19
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Ecclesiastes 4:3
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Ecclesiastes 4:3
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2 Kings 9:35
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2 Kings 9:35
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35 But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.
Isaiah 14:19-20
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Isaiah 14:19-20
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19 But you are cast out(A) of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(B)
with those pierced by the sword,(C)
those who descend to the stones of the pit.(D)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
20 you will not join them in burial,(E)
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.
Genesis 47:9
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Genesis 47:9
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9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(A) My years have been few and difficult,(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(C)”
Matthew 26:24
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Matthew 26:24
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24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him.(A) But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
Jeremiah 36:30
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Jeremiah 36:30
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30 Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim(A) king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out(B) and exposed(C) to the heat by day and the frost by night.(D)
Jeremiah 8:2
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Jeremiah 8:2
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2 They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served(A) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.(B) They will not be gathered up or buried,(C) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(D)
Ecclesiastes 5:17-19
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Ecclesiastes 5:17-19
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17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink(A) and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor(B) under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot. 19 Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions,(C) and the ability to enjoy them,(D) to accept their lot(E) and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.(F)
Proverbs 17:6
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Proverbs 17:6
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6 Children’s children(A) are a crown to the aged,
and parents are the pride of their children.
Psalm 127:4-5
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Psalm 127:4-5
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Psalm 58:8
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Psalm 58:8
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Esther 9:14-15
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Esther 9:14-15
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14 So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled(A) the ten sons of Haman. 15 The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.(B)
Esther 5:11
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Esther 5:11
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11 Haman boasted(A) to them about his vast wealth, his many sons,(B) and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.
2 Chronicles 11:21
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2 Chronicles 11:21
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21 Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives(A) and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
1 Chronicles 28:5
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1 Chronicles 28:5
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5 Of all my sons—and the Lord has given me many(A)—he has chosen my son Solomon(B) to sit on the throne(C) of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
2 Kings 10:1
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2 Kings 10:1
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Ahab’s Family Killed
10 Now there were in Samaria(A) seventy sons(B) of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[a](C) to the elders and to the guardians(D) of Ahab’s children. He said,
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 10:1 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate of the city
1 Samuel 2:20-21
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1 Samuel 2:20-21
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20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed(A) for and gave to[a] the Lord.” Then they would go home. 21 And the Lord was gracious to Hannah;(B) she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew(C) up in the presence of the Lord.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 2:20 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text and asked from
Genesis 33:5
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Genesis 33:5
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5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.
Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.(A)”
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