7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should give sons suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.
Bible verses about "breastfeeding" | ACV
Genesis 21:7
Numbers 11:12
12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nurturing father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to their fathers?
Job 3:12
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Proverbs 5:18-19
Psalms 131:1-2
Isaiah 49:23
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet. And thou shall know that I am LORD, and those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
Isaiah 40:11
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those who have their young.
Lamentations 4:4
4 The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
Luke 23:26-31
26 And when they led him away, having taken hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian coming from the countryside, they laid the cross on him to bring behind Jesus.
27 And a great multitude of the people followed him, and also of women who bewailed and lamented him.
28 But having turning to them, Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, instead weep for yourselves and for your children.
29 Because, behold, the days are coming, during which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the bellies that gave no birth, and the breasts that did not suckle.
30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us.
31 Because if they do these things in the green tree, what will happen in the dry?
Ruth 4:16
16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
Hosea 9:14
14 Give them, O LORD-what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hebrews 5:12-14
12 For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
13 For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.
14 But solid food is for mature men, those having their sensibilities trained through practice for the discernment of both good and evil.
Genesis 21:8
8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
1 Samuel 1:21-24
21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, Not until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before LORD, and abide there forever.
23 And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems good to thee. Remain until thou have weaned him, only LORD establish his word. So the woman remained and gave her son suck, until she weaned him.
24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of LORD in Shiloh, and the child was young.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
7 nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.
Psalms 22:9
9 But thou are he who took me out of the womb. Thou made me trust upon my mother's breasts.
Genesis 49:25
25 even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
Isaiah 49:15
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
1 Peter 2:2
2 as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,
Lamentations 4:3
3 Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Joel 2:16
16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the old men. Gather the sons, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Luke 11:27
27 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman, having lifted up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the belly that bore thee, and the breasts that thou suckled.
Isaiah 66:10-13
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all ye who mourn over her,
11 that ye may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations, that ye may get milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus says LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And ye shall nurse thereof. Ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.