FATHER-IN-LAW

Passages on this topic · 15

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 31:7

  Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

• Genesis 31:39

  That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

• Genesis 31:40

  This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 31:42

  Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

• Judges 19:3

  Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

• Judges 19:4

  His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.

• Judges 19:5

  On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”

• Judges 19:6

  So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

• Judges 19:7

  The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.

• Judges 19:8

  He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines”; and they both ate.

• Judges 19:9

  When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”