Thematic Bible: Parents, duty to


Thematic Bible



Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

Hosah, from the Merarites, also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.


But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”



“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.



The living, only the living can thank You,
as I do today;
a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.

ק QofArise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.






Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.






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