2,057 verses contain “child” (in the KJV: 1,943, in the BSB: 529) — showing 1,901–2,000
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So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with fire, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell.
So the camp of the children of Ammon departed, and with them five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, and took the waters, and the fountains of the waters of the children of Israel.
Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and camped in the hill country over against Dothaim: and they sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east over against Ekrebel, which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain, and covered the face of the whole land; and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude.
Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord their God, because their heart failed, for all their enemies had compassed them round about, and there was no way to escape out from among them.
Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chief of the city, both young men, and women, and children, and cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,
God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assur.
And he dispersed the people, every one to their own charge; and they went unto the walls and towers of their city, and sent the women and children into their houses: and they were very low brought in the city.
And now who are ye that have tempted God this day, and stand instead of God among the children of men?
Then said Judith unto them, Hear me, and I will do a thing, which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation.
The God, the God of our fathers give thee favour, and accomplish thine enterprizes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they worshipped God.
And when she came out, she besought the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people.
Now when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell upon them with one consent, and slew them unto Chobai: likewise also they that came from Jerusalem, and from all the hill country, (for men had told them what things were done in the camp of their enemies) and they that were in Galaad, and in Galilee, chased them with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and the borders thereof.
And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter had that which remained; and the villages and the cities, that were in the mountains and in the plain, gat many spoils: for the multitude was very great.
The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and wounded them as fugatives’ children: they perished by the battle of the Lord.
And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.
Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:
And that they be children of the most high and most mighty, living God, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and to our progenitors in the most excellent manner.
He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:
As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.
For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.
Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not from among thy children:
For though a man be never so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.
And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,
That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.
But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope that thou givest repentance for sins.
For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:
Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and children, and is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life.
For whilst they slew their children in sacrifices, or used secret ceremonies, or made revellings of strange rites;
For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man’s liking.
That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know, that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man: but that it is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.
And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away the multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.
For the righteous children of good men did sacrifice secretly, and with one consent made a holy law, that the saints should be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers now singing out the songs of praise.
But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.
Hear me your father, O children, and do thereafter, that ye may be safe.
For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons.
Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children; and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.
For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.
For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to the children.
Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.
Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their youth.
Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.
He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge under her branches.
Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.
Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.
A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.
If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.
Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.
For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.
She shall be brought out into the congregation, and inquisition shall be made of her children.
Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.
I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.
There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:
An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to himself will be wilful.
Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.
And beware of thine own children.
For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.
The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.
Children and the building of a city continue a man’s name: but a blameless wife is counted above them both.
The children of sinners are abominable children, and they that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly.
The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish, and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they shall be reproached for his sake.
And of merchants’ indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant.
Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes.
And he compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden bells round about, that as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people;
Before him there were none such, neither did ever any stranger put them on, but only his children and his children’s children perpetually.
That all the children of Israel might see that it is good to follow the Lord.
Let their bones flourish out of their place, and let the name of them that were honoured be continued upon their children.
As is the fat taken away from the peace offering, so was David chosen out of the children of Israel.
Then he went down, and lifted up his hands over the whole congregation of the children of Israel, to give the blessing of the Lord with his lips, and to rejoice in his name.
As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,
Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.
For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.