Thematic Bible: Parents, duty to


Thematic Bible



And I have given to thee one tract of land above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the head, for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the head;

And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.


But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.



When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;



The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.






Let the ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting their children and their own houses well: