Thematic Bible: Parental influence and example


Thematic Bible




And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of David his father and did not seek after the Baals,

As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with {integrity of heart} and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, [and if] you keep my ordinances and my judgments,

And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, to do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh.

And he did what [was] right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done--only he did not go into the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly.


He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went in the way of his father and his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin.

And coached by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter!"

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness.

but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them."

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, {after which their ancestors walked}!