Thematic Bible: Parental influence and example
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I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.
The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David's footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,
You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.
He followed in his father Asa's footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved.
He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) Yet the people were still sinning.
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He did evil in the sight of the Lord and followed in the footsteps of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.
Instructed by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter."
"'But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
He followed in the footsteps of Ahab's dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.
Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.
This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.
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