Topic
Swaddle
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 38:9Nave (Wrapping, bundling) — Of children
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
- Lamentations 2:22Nave (Wrapping, bundling) — Of children
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
- Ezekiel 16:4Nave (Wrapping, bundling) — Of children
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
- Luke 2:7Nave (Wrapping, bundling) — Of children
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
- Luke 2:12Nave (Wrapping, bundling) — Of children
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.