- Genesis 30:21 (NIV):
“Then she said, ‘God has given me a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.’ So she named him Zebulun.”
- Exodus 2:1-2 (NIV):
“Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.”
- Exodus 21:7 (NIV):
“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.”
- Numbers 27:8 (NIV):
“Say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter.’”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 (NIV):
“But if the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,”
- Joshua 15:17 (NIV):
“Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.”
- Judges 11:34 (NIV):
“When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.”
- Judges 11:40 (NIV):
“that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.”
- Ruth 1:9 (NIV):
“May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.’ Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud.”
- Ruth 4:15 (NIV):
“He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.’”
- 1 Samuel 14:49 (NIV):
“Saul’s sons were Jonathan, Ishvi and Malki-Shua. The name of his older daughter was Merab, and that of the younger was Michal.”
- 2 Samuel 6:20 (NIV):
“When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, ‘How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!'”
- 2 Samuel 21:8 (NIV):
“So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.”
- 1 Kings 9:16 (NIV):
“For Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.”
- 1 Chronicles 15:29 (NIV):
“As the ark of the covenant of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.”
- 1 Chronicles 23:22 (NIV):
“Eleazar died without having sons: he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.”
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 (NIV):
“But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him.”
- Nehemiah 6:14 (NIV):
“Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets have been trying to intimidate me.”
- Esther 2:15 (NIV):
“When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.”
- Job 42:13 (NIV):
“He also had seven sons and three daughters.”
- Psalm 45:9 (NIV):
“Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.”
- Psalm 78:9 (NIV):
“_The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;”
- Isaiah 4:4 (NIV):
“The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.”
- Isaiah 23:10 (NIV):
“Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor.”
- Isaiah 23:12 (NIV):
“He said, ‘No more of your reveling, Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed! ‘Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.’”
- Jeremiah 13:18 (NIV):
“Say to the king and to the queen mother, ‘Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.’”
- Ezekiel 16:44 (NIV):
“Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’”
- Ezekiel 23:2 (NIV):
““Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.”
- Micah 4:8 (NIV):
“As for you, watchtower of the flock, stronghold of Daughter Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.”
- Zechariah 9:9 (NIV):
“Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”