Thematic Bible: Parents, duty to


Thematic Bible



I am giving you one more mountain ridge than your brothers. I took it from the Amorites with my own sword and bow.

Hosah the Merarite had sons: Shimri the first although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him the first,

Isaac preferred Esau. This is because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed. Rebecca preferred Jacob.

He put the concubines and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph at the rear.


Jacob would not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with the other brothers. He was afraid that something would happen to him.



In the future your son will ask you: 'What is the meaning of these laws and regulations that Jehovah our God has commanded you?'

His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.



The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.






Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.