Thematic Bible: Parents, duty to


Thematic Bible



Moreover, I have given you [the birthright,] one portion [Shechem, one mountain ridge] more than any of your brothers, which I took [reclaiming it] from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.” Verse ConceptsFighting Enemies

Also Hosah, one of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the first and chief (although he was not the firstborn, his father made him first), Verse ConceptsFirstbornBirthrights

Now Isaac loved [and favored] Esau, because he enjoyed eating his game, but Rebekah loved [and favored] Jacob. Verse ConceptsFathers, Examples OfPrejudiceTastePartialityThose Who LovedMan's FavouriteDeergames

He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. Verse ConceptsPartialityOrder Of MarchLast OnesIn Front


But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s [younger] brother, with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that some harm or injury may come to him.” Verse ConceptsPartialityFear Of Other Things

You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Timeethics, personalBeing A Motherdiscipline, in the familyLove, And The WorldResponsibility, For God's WorldRoadsWalkingCaring For ChildrenLying Down To RestSchoolsDoing RepeatedlyHabitual Getting UpLet Your Speech Be GoodTraining ChildrenRaising ChildrenKids

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and statutes and judgments (precepts) which the Lord our God has commanded you?’ Verse ConceptsAskingMeaningThe Future

then his father and mother shall take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. Verse ConceptsGatesComing To Gates



“It is the living who give praise and thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
Verse ConceptsBad ParentsBeing A TeacherEducation, At HomeChildren, needs ofParents Duty To ChildrenHeritageLiving ThingsTeaching Children


“Arise, cry aloud in the night,
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint from hunger
At the head of every street.”
Verse ConceptsHandsNightPouringAll Night PrayersLifting HandsThings Like WaterPouring WaterFaintingTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingBeginning Of PeriodsLike Water




Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households. Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsMonogamyAuthority Of DisciplesMarriage ControlledWifeFamily FirstMoney ManagementA Good Husband