'Relatives' in the Bible
The Lord said to Abram:Go out from your land,your relatives,and your father’s houseto the land that I will show you.
Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.
and said, “Praise the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead.
If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
You’ve searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours? Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.
Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”
You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.
The Lord said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,
His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself.
But he replied to him, “I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”
An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
They came before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our male relatives.” So they gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers, in keeping with the Lord’s instruction.
His mother’s relatives spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the lords of Shechem, and they were favorable to Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”
But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife?”But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”
I will also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?”They answered, “We’re Ahaziah’s relatives. We’ve come down to greet the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons.”
His relatives by their families as they are recorded in their genealogy:Jeiel the chief, Zechariah,
Their relatives according to their ancestral houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven.
On the left, their relatives were Merari’s sons:Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi,son of Malluch,
Their relatives, the Levites, were assigned to all the service of the tabernacle, God’s temple.
Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.
and Mikloth who fathered Shimeah. These also lived opposite their relatives in Jerusalem, with their other relatives.
and from the sons of Zerah:Jeuel and 690 of their relatives.
and 956 of their relatives according to their genealogical records. All these men were heads of their ancestral houses.
and 1,760 of their relatives, the heads of households. They were capable men employed in the ministry of God’s temple.
The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.Shallum was their chief;
Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his relatives from his ancestral household, the Korahites, were assigned to guard the thresholds of the tent. Their ancestors had been assigned to the Lord’s camp as guardians of the entrance.
Their relatives came from their villages at fixed times to be with them seven days,
Some of the Kohathites’ relatives were responsible for preparing the rows of the bread of the Presence every Sabbath.
Mikloth fathered Shimeam. These also lived opposite their relatives in Jerusalem with their other relatives.
They were archers who could use either the right or left hand, both to sling stones and shoot arrows from a bow. They were Saul’s relatives from Benjamin:
From the Benjaminites, the relatives of Saul: 3,000 (up to that time the majority of the Benjaminites maintained their allegiance to the house of Saul).
From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.
They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.
Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is from the Lord our God, let us spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands, that they should gather together with us.
From the Kohathites, Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives;
from the Merarites, Asaiah the leader and 220 of his relatives;
from the Gershomites, Joel the leader and 130 of his relatives;
from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the leader and 200 of his relatives;
from the Hebronites, Eliel the leader and 80 of his relatives;
from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives.
He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.
Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; and from their relatives the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah.
With them were their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.
On that day David decreed for the first time that thanks be given to the Lord by Asaph and his relatives:
So David left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant to minister regularly before the ark according to the daily requirements.
He assigned Obed-edom and his 68 relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.
They are to carry out their responsibilities for the tent of meeting, for the holy place, and for their relatives, the sons of Aaron, in the service of the Lord’s temple.”
They also cast lots the same way as their relatives the sons of Aaron did in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.
They numbered 288 together with their relatives who were all trained and skillful in music for the Lord.
From the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 capable men, had assigned duties in Israel west of the Jordan for all the work of the Lord and for the service of the king.
There were among Jerijah’s relatives, 2,700 capable men who were heads of families. King David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh as overseers in every matter relating to God and the king.
the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets. The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons and relatives.
and their relatives who did the work at the temple: 822. Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah
and his relatives, the leaders of families: 242. Amashsai son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,
and their relatives, capable men: 128. Zabdiel son of Haggedolim, was their chief.
Mattaniah son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, the leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his relatives; and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.
The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their relatives, who guarded the gates: 172.
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah.These were the leaders of the priests and their relatives in the days of Jeshua.
The Levites:Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah—he and his relatives were in charge of the praise songs.
Bakbukiah, Unni, and their relatives stood opposite them in the services.
The leaders of the Levites—Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their relatives opposite them—gave praise and thanks, division by division, as David the man of God had prescribed.
as well as his relatives—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David, the man of God. Ezra the scribe went in front of them.
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”
Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives. He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.
My relatives stop coming by,and my close friends have forgotten me.
My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,and my relatives stand at a distance.
But I will strip Esau bare;I will uncover his secret places.He will try to hide himself, but he will be unable.His descendants will be destroyedalong with his relatives and neighbors.He will exist no longer.
“Son of man, your own relatives, those who have the right to redeem you, and the entire house of Israel, all of them, are those that the residents of Jerusalem have said this to, ‘Stay away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.”
Then her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her His great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
Then they said to her, “None of your relatives has that name.”
Assuming He was in the traveling party, they went a day’s journey. Then they began looking for Him among their relatives and friends.
He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.
and said to him:Get out of your countryand away from your relatives,and come to the landthat I will show you.
Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,
The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, that is his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.