Saul got angry with Jonathan and he said, You are Son of a crooked and rebellious woman Jonathan! I know you have sided with Jesse's son, Saul accused. You have no shame. You act as if you are your mother's son not mine.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

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I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.

When your children ask you: What does this rite mean to you?

In the future when your children ask you, 'What does this mean?' tell them: 'Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring us out of slavery in Egypt.''

Be on your guard! Make sure you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

This may be a sign among you when your children ask their fathers what is the meaning of these stones?

If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'

He is the one who will build a house for my name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for a very ong time.'

You my son Solomon, learn to know your father's God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.

Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations.

O God, You taught me from my youth, and I still declare your wondrous deeds.

We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.

Listen my sons to what your father teaches you. Pay attention and gain understanding.

Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

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

I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline?

General references

On that day tell your children: 'We do this because of what Jehovah did for us when we left Egypt.'

Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to respect Jehovah your God, as long as you live on the land you will possess when you cross the Jordan River.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.