Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

General references

Bible References

Nephews

Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.
Isaiah 14:22
“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity,” declares the Lord.

Learn

1 Samuel 22:3
And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”
Proverbs 31:28
Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:
Luke 2:51
And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart.
John 19:26
When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, Woman, behold, your son!”

Piety

Matthew 15:4
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’
Mark 7:11
but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’

To requite

Genesis 45:10
You shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.
Genesis 47:12
Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones.
Ruth 2:2
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Good

1 Timothy 2:3
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

General references

Genesis 45:11
There I will also provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’