Then {Saul became angry} at Jonathan and said to him, "[You] son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

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For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."

{And} when your children say to you, 'What [is] this {religious custom} for you?'

And when your son asks you {in the future}, saying, 'What [is] this?' you will say to him, 'With strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from a house of slaves.

"However, {take care} for yourself and watch your inner self closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to {your grandchildren}.

And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at [the time of] your living in your house and at [the time of] your going on the road and at [the time of] your lying down and at [the time of] your rising [up].

And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

so that this may be a reminder among you. When your children ask in the future, saying, '{What do these stones mean to you}?'

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

He himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I [will be] to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'

"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and [all] thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.

Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided."

O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.

We will not hide [them] from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.

Children, listen [to the] instruction of a father, and be attentive [in order] to know insight.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.

As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.

[The] living, [the] living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

{remembering the} sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that [is] in you also,

and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able [to make] you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?

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And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, 'This [is] because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out from Egypt.'

And [then] their children, who have not known, they [too] may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days {that you live} on the land that you [are] crossing the Jordan {to get there} to take possession of it."

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.