Thematic Bible: Parental influence and example


Thematic Bible




Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.

He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.


He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made Israel to sin.

She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."

I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;