Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

Is your father well

Bible References

Welfare

Genesis 37:14
Then Israel said to him, “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.
Genesis 41:16
“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
Exodus 18:7
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been and went into the tent.
Judges 18:15
So they detoured there and went to the house of the young Levite at the home of Micah and greeted him.
1 Samuel 17:22
David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were.
1 Samuel 25:5
so David sent 10 young men instructing them, “Go up to Carmel, and when you come to Nabal, greet him in my name.
1 Chronicles 18:10
he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and to congratulate him because David had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Tou and Hadadezer had fought many wars. Hadoram brought all kinds of gold, silver, and bronze items.

Is your father well

Genesis 42:11
“We are all sons of one man. We are honest; your servants are not spies.”

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