Quotes about Children
“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
— Leviticus 20:2
And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
— Leviticus 20:4
Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
— Leviticus 25:41
Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
— Leviticus 25:54
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
— Numbers 14:31
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
— Numbers 14:33
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
— Numbers 31:9
But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
— Numbers 32:17
Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
— Numbers 32:26
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
— Deuteronomy 1:39
We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
— Deuteronomy 3:6
But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
— Deuteronomy 3:19