Thematic Bible: Parents, duty to


Thematic Bible



Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.


But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."



When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?"

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



The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.






Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.