Here are 49 Bible verses about death of a mother from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Matthew 15:4 KJV
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
2 Kings 4:19 KJV
And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
Proverbs 10:1 KJV
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Ezekiel 18:4 KJV
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
1 Kings 3:19 KJV
And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
Genesis 24:67 KJV
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Luke 7:12 KJV
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luke 7:13 KJV
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Jeremiah 16:7 KJV
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Hebrews 7:3 KJV
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Exodus 21:15 KJV
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Jeremiah 22:26 KJV
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
Matthew 2:19 KJV
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Proverbs 19:18 KJV
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Job 42:17 KJV
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Genesis 35:19 KJV
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
Psalms 35:14 KJV
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Leviticus 20:9 KJV
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Genesis 35:18 KJV
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Matthew 2:20 KJV
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
John 19:25 KJV
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
Jeremiah 20:17 KJV
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Exodus 21:17 KJV
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:18 KJV
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Luke 7:15 KJV
And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
Luke 21:16 KJV
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
1 Kings 3:27 KJV
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
2 Kings 4:32 KJV
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
Deuteronomy 24:16 KJV
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Matthew 2:15 KJV
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Hebrews 11:35 KJV
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Jeremiah 22:10 KJV
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Genesis 21:16 KJV
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 23:1 KJV
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Deuteronomy 13:6 KJV
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 22:21 KJV
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Ruth 2:11 KJV
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
2 Corinthians 2:16 KJV
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Leviticus 21:11 KJV
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
Ruth 1:8 KJV
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
1 Samuel 4:20 KJV
And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
Joshua 2:13 KJV
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
Mark 7:10 KJV
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Matthew 10:21 KJV
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Esther 2:7 KJV
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Job 3:11 KJV
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Mark 13:12 KJV
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
2 Kings 4:20 KJV
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
John 19:26 KJV
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
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