Thematic Bible: Parental influence and example


Thematic Bible




And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baals;

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah.

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still acted corruptly.


And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here upon a dish the head of John the baptist.

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.