Thematic Bible: Parental influence and example


Thematic Bible




The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals, Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Good Parental ExamplesImitating Good KingsGod With Specific People

As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Good Parental ExamplesKeep The Commandments!

He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. Verse ConceptsImitating Good Kings

He did right in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father Amaziah had done. Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Good Parental ExamplesSports

He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued acting corruptly. Verse ConceptsImitating Good KingsEntering The Temple

He did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Bad Parental ExamplesMothers, Examples OfMothers, Responsibilities OfImitating Wicked Kingsjezebel

Having been prompted by her mother, she *said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Bad Parental ExamplesMothers, Examples OfInciting To EvilSkullsPots For Cooking And Eating

“I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. Verse ConceptsBad ParentsFalse ReligionExamples, Badevil, warnings againstChildren, attitudes towardsNot Imitating EvilPollution ForbiddenAvoiding IdolatryParents Being Wrongstatues

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Bad Parental ExamplesMothers, Responsibilities OfImitating Wicked Kings

but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” Verse ConceptsBad ParentsChildren, needs ofChildren, Bad Parental ExamplesHardness Of HeartSuperstitionMisteachingFollowers Of Baalimagination

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their lies also have led them astray,
Those after which their fathers walked.
Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

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