Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

A child

Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his sons and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and judgment, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Therefore, take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but teach them to thy sons and thy sons' sons.
Deuteronomy 6:7
and thou shalt repeat them diligently unto thy sons and shalt talk of them being in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up;
Psalm 78:3
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
2 Timothy 3:15
and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

When

1 Samuel 1:28
Therefore, I also have given him back to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall belong to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
1 Samuel 2:26
And the child Samuel kept on growing and was in favour both with the LORD and also with men.
1 Samuel 12:2
And now, behold, your king walks before you. I am old and grayheaded, and, behold, my sons are with you, and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

General references

Deuteronomy 31:13
and that their children, who have not known any thing, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God all the days that ye live in the land unto which ye are to pass the Jordan to inherit it.