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We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?'

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?'

Every word of every command that Moses had ever given was read to the entire assembly of Israel, including the women and children and the foreigners who lived among them.

To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the mountains of Seir, while Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

"You may go," Jephthah said. And he sent her away for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never have children.

In those days a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and they had no children.

The angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah's wife and said, "Even though you have been unable to have children, you will soon become pregnant and give birth to a son.

They turned and started on their way again, placing their children, livestock, and possessions in front of them.

So the assembly sent 12,000 of their best warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children.

Then Boaz told him, "Of course, your purchase of the land from Naomi also requires that you marry Ruth, the Moabite widow. That way she can have children who will carry on her husband's name and keep the land in the family."

Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not.

On the days Elkanah presented his sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to Peninnah and each of her children.

And though he loved Hannah, he would give her only one choice portion because the Lord had given her no children.

So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children.

"Why are you crying, Hannah?" Elkanah would ask. "Why aren't you eating? Why be downhearted just because you have no children? You have me—isn't that better than having ten sons?"

Those who were well fed are now starving, and those who were starving are now full. The childless woman now has seven children, and the woman with many children wastes away.

Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the Lord give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the Lord ."

The few not cut off from serving at my altar will survive, but only so their eyes can go blind and their hearts break, and their children will die a violent death.

Now go and completely destroy the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys."

At last Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, for we have sworn loyalty to each other in the Lord 's name. The Lord is the witness of a bond between us and our children forever." Then David left, and Jonathan returned to the town.