Job 27:14 Cross References

Job 27:14

14: If they have a multitude of children, their children will die in war or starve to death.

You will have sons and daughters, but you will not keep them, for they will be led away into captivity.

For the days are coming when they will say, 'Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.'

His children will beg from the poor, for he must give back his ill-gotten wealth.

But the Jews went ahead on the appointed day and struck down their enemies with the sword. They killed and annihilated their enemies and did as they pleased with those who hated them.
They killed five hundred people in the fortress of Susa.
They also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha--

You are to destroy the family of Ahab, your master. In this way, I will avenge the murder of my prophets and all the LORD's servants who were killed by Jezebel.
The entire family of Ahab must be wiped out--every male, slave and free alike, in Israel.

May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation.

Those who were well fed are now starving; and those who were starving are now full. The barren woman now has seven children; but the woman with many children will have no more.

Jehu responded with a second letter: "If you are on my side and are going to obey me, bring the heads of the king's sons to me at Jezreel at about this time tomorrow." Now the seventy sons of the king were being cared for by the leaders of Samaria, where they had been raised since childhood.
When the letter arrived, the leaders killed all seventy of the king's sons. They placed their heads in baskets and presented them to Jehu at Jezreel.
A messenger went to Jehu and said, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." So Jehu ordered, "Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the city gate, and leave them there until morning."
In the morning he went out and spoke to the crowd that had gathered around them. "You aren't to blame," he told them. "I am the one who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?
You can be sure that the message of the LORD that was spoken concerning Ahab's family will not fail. The LORD declared through his servant Elijah that this would happen."

You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break as you long for them, but nothing you do will help.

and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other officials and leaders.

I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered."
O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk.

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