PARENTS

Passages on this topic · 251

• Genesis 6:18

  But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

• Genesis 9:24

  Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

• Genesis 9:25

  He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

• Genesis 9:26

  He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

• Genesis 9:27

  May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

• Genesis 17:18

  Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

• Genesis 18:19

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

• Genesis 21:15

  The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

• Genesis 21:16

  She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

• Genesis 24:55

  Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”

• Genesis 25:28

  Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:31

  He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:32

  Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

• Genesis 27:35

  He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

• Genesis 27:39

  Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

• Genesis 28:3

  May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

• Genesis 28:4

  and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

• Genesis 31:26

  Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

• Genesis 31:27

  Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

• Genesis 31:28

  and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

• Genesis 37:4

  His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

• Genesis 42:4

  But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

• Genesis 42:38

  He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 43:13

  Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

• Genesis 43:14

  May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

• Genesis 45:26

  They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

• Genesis 45:27

  They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

• Genesis 45:28

  Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

• Genesis 48:10

  Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

• Genesis 48:11

  Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

• Genesis 48:19

  His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

• Genesis 49:1

  Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

• Genesis 49:2

  Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

• Genesis 49:3

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

• Genesis 49:4

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Genesis 49:5

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

• Genesis 49:6

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Genesis 49:7

  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

• Genesis 49:8

  “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

• Genesis 49:11

  Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

• Genesis 49:12

  His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

• Genesis 49:13

  “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

• Genesis 49:14

  “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

• Genesis 49:16

  “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

• Genesis 49:18

  I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

• Genesis 49:19

  “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

• Genesis 49:20

  “Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

• Genesis 49:21

  “Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

• Genesis 49:22

  “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

• Genesis 49:24

  But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

• Genesis 49:25

  even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

• Genesis 49:26

  The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

• Genesis 49:27

  “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

• Genesis 49:28

  All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

• Exodus 10:2

  and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

• Exodus 12:26

  It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

• Exodus 12:27

  that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

• Exodus 13:8

  You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

• Exodus 13:14

  It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

• Exodus 20:5

  you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Exodus 20:6

  and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

• Exodus 20:10

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

• Exodus 21:17

  “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

• Leviticus 20:5

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

• Leviticus 20:9

  “‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

• Leviticus 23:3

  “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

• Deuteronomy 4:9

  Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

• Deuteronomy 4:10

  the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

• Deuteronomy 6:7

  and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Deuteronomy 6:20

  When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”

• Deuteronomy 6:21

  then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

• Deuteronomy 6:22

  and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

• Deuteronomy 6:23

  and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.

• Deuteronomy 6:24

  Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

• Deuteronomy 11:18

  Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

• Deuteronomy 11:19

  You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Deuteronomy 11:20

  You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;

• Deuteronomy 11:21

  that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

• Deuteronomy 32:46

  He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

• Ruth 1:8

  Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

• Ruth 1:9

  May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

• 1 Samuel 1:27

  I prayed for this child; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

• 1 Samuel 2:19

  Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

• 1 Samuel 2:27

  A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

• 1 Samuel 2:28

  Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

• 1 Samuel 2:29

  Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

• 1 Samuel 2:30

  “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

• 1 Samuel 2:31

  Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

• 1 Samuel 2:32

  You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

• 1 Samuel 2:33

  The man of yours, whom I don’t cut off from my altar, will consume your eyes and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

• 1 Samuel 2:34

  “‘This will be the sign to you, that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

• 1 Samuel 2:35

  I will raise me up a faithful priest, that will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he will walk before my anointed forever.

• 1 Samuel 2:36

  It will happen, that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

• 1 Samuel 3:13

  For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

• 1 Samuel 3:14

  Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

• 1 Samuel 4:10

  The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.

• 1 Samuel 4:11

  God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

• 1 Samuel 4:12

  A man of Benjamin ran out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with dirt on his head.

• 1 Samuel 4:13

  When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

• 1 Samuel 4:14

  When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.

• 1 Samuel 4:15

  Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

• 1 Samuel 4:16

  The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”

• 1 Samuel 4:17

  He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.

• 1 Samuel 4:20

  About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid; for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.

• 1 Samuel 4:21

  She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”; because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

• 1 Samuel 4:22

  She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”

• 2 Samuel 7:25

  Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

• 2 Samuel 7:26

  Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’

• 2 Samuel 7:27

  For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

• 2 Samuel 7:28

  “Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

• 2 Samuel 7:29

  Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”

• 2 Samuel 12:16

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• 2 Samuel 12:18

  On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

• 2 Samuel 12:19

  But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.

• 2 Samuel 12:21

  Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”

• 2 Samuel 12:22

  He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

• 2 Samuel 12:23

  But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

• 2 Samuel 13:38

  So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

• 2 Samuel 13:39

  King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:1

  Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 14:33

  So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 18:5

  The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 18:12

  The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

• 2 Samuel 18:13

  Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Samuel 19:1

  Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

• 2 Samuel 19:2

  The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

• 2 Samuel 19:3

  The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

• 2 Samuel 19:4

  The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Samuel 19:5

  Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

• 2 Samuel 19:6

  in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

• 2 Samuel 21:10

  Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

• 1 Kings 1:6

  His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

• 1 Kings 3:22

  The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:23

  Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

• 1 Kings 3:24

  The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:25

  The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

• 1 Kings 3:27

  Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

• 1 Kings 3:28

  All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

• 1 Chronicles 17:16

  Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

• 1 Chronicles 17:17

  This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

• 1 Chronicles 17:18

  What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

• 1 Chronicles 17:19

  Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

• 1 Chronicles 17:20

  Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

• 1 Chronicles 17:21

  What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

• 1 Chronicles 17:22

  For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

• 1 Chronicles 17:23

  Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

• 1 Chronicles 17:24

  Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’

• 1 Chronicles 17:25

  For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

• 1 Chronicles 17:26

  Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.

• 1 Chronicles 17:27

  Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

• 1 Chronicles 22:12

  May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

• 1 Chronicles 29:19

  and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

• Job 1:5

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

• Psalms 78:5

  For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

• Psalms 78:6

  that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

• Psalms 103:13

  Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

• Psalms 103:17

  But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

• Proverbs 3:12

  for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

• Proverbs 13:22

  A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

• Proverbs 13:24

  One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

• Proverbs 19:18

  Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

• Proverbs 22:15

  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

• Proverbs 23:13

  Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

• Proverbs 23:14

  Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

• Proverbs 27:11

  Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

• Proverbs 29:15

  The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

• Proverbs 29:17

  Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

• Proverbs 31:28

  Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

• Isaiah 14:20

  You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

• Isaiah 38:19

  The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

• Isaiah 49:15

  “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

• Isaiah 66:13

  As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

• Jeremiah 9:14

  but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

• Jeremiah 31:1

  “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

• Jeremiah 49:11

  Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

• Lamentations 5:7

  Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

• Ezekiel 16:44

  “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

• Joel 1:3

  Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

• Malachi 4:6

  He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

• Matthew 10:37

  He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

• Matthew 12:46

  While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

• Mark 5:23

  and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”

• Mark 9:24

  Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

• Luke 2:48

  When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”

• Luke 11:11

  “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

• Luke 11:12

  Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

• Luke 11:13

  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

• John 2:5

  His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

• John 4:49

  The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

• John 19:25

  But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

• 2 Corinthians 12:14

  Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

• Ephesians 6:4

  You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

• Colossians 3:21

  Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:11

  As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

• 1 Timothy 3:4

  one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

• 1 Timothy 3:5

  (but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

• Titus 1:6

  if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

• Titus 2:4

  that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

• Hebrews 12:7

  It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?