Children:
Children: Should Be
Brought to Christ
Brought early to the house of God
Instructed in the ways of God
Judiciously trained
Children: Should
Obey God
Fear God
Remember God
Attend to parental teaching
Honour parents
Fear parents
Obey parents
Take care of parents
Honour the aged
Not imitate bad parents
Children: Not to Have
Considered an affliction
A reproach in Israel
Children: Treatment Of, after Birth, Noticed
Children: Circumcised on the Eighth Day
Children: Were Named
After relatives
From remarkable events
Gen 21:3,6; 18:13; Exd 2:10; 18:3,4
From circumstances connected with their birth
Often by God
Often numerous
Numerous, considered an especial blessing
Sometimes born when parents were old
Children: Male
If first born, belonged to God and were redeemed
Birth of, announced to the father by a messenger
Under the care of tutors, till they came of age
Usefully employed
Inherited the possessions of their father
Received the blessing of their father before his death
Children: Female
Taken care of by nurses
Usefully employed
Inherited property in default of sons
Children: Prosperity of, greatly depended on obedience of parents
Children: Were Required
To honour their parents
To attend to instruction
To submit to discipline
To respect the aged
Children: Often Wicked and Rebellious
Children: Rebellious, Punished by the Civil Power
Children: Could Demand Their Portion during Father's Life
Children: Casting Out of Weak, &c Alluded To
Children: Illegitimate
Had no inheritance
Not cared for by the father
Excluded from the congregation
Sometimes sent away with gifts
Despised by their brethren
Children: Resignation Manifested at Loss Of
Children:
The blessing of offspring, but especially of the male sex, is highly valued among all eastern nations, while a the absence is regarded as one of the severest punishments (Genesis 16:2; 7:14; 1 Samuel 1:6; 2 Samuel 6:23; 2 Kings 4:14; Isaiah 47:9; Jeremiah 20:15; Psalm 127:3; 127:5). As soon as the child was born it was washed in a bath, rubbed with salt and wrapped in swaddling clothes (Ezekiel 16:4; Job 38:9; Luke 2:7). On the 8th day the rite of circumcision, in the case of a boy, was performed and a name given. At the end of a certain time (forty days if a son and twice as long if a daughter). the mother offered sacrifice for her cleansing (Leviticus 12:1-8; Luke 2:22). The period of nursing appears to have been sometimes prolonged to three years (Isaiah 49:15; 2 Maccabees 7:27). The time of weaning was an occasion of rejoicing (Genesis 21:8). Both boys and girls in their early years were under the care of the women (Proverbs 31:1). Afterwards the boys were taken by the father under his charge. Daughters usually remained in the women's apartments till marriage (Leviticus 21:9; Numbers 12:14; 1 Samuel 9:11). The authority of parents, especially of the father, over children was very great, as was also the reverence enjoined by the law to be paid to parents. The inheritance was divided equally between all the sons except the eldest, who received a double portion (Genesis 25:31; 49:3; 21:17; Judges 11:2; 11:7; 1 Chronicles 5:1-2). Daughters had by right no portion in the inheritance; but if a man had no son, his inheritance passed to his daughters, who were forbidden to marry out of the father's tribe (Numbers 27:1; 27:8; 36:2; 36:8).
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