Thematic Bible: Examples of Godly young men


Thematic Bible



They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.


Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. Joash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.



Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.





Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.



The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.


Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."


They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.