And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give you seed from this woman for the petition which has been loaned unto Jehovah. And they went to their place.

And Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up with Jehovah.

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those rearing Ahab's sons, saying:

And of all my sons (for Jehovah has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah, over Israel.

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of one's youth.

Blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers.

All his days he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Also every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

And the Jews who were in Shushan gathered together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; but they did not lay a hand on the spoils.

But you are cast out of your grave like an abhorred branch, and like the apparel of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a carcass trampled under foot.

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you destroyed your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out into the heat of the day, and the frost of the night.

Yea, better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Or why was I not concealed like a miscarriage, like infants who never saw the light?

Let them be as a snail that melts away; as a stillborn child of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he was never born.