22 occurrences

'Father' in the Bible

while Elisha [was] watching and crying out, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" But he could not see him any longer, and he grasped his clothes and tore them in two pieces.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfDuplicating WordsSpiritual FathersHeavenly ChariotsThose Who Tore ClothesStruggles In Relationship

and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not as his father or his mother, as he removed the stone pillars of Baal that his father had made.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisks

Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, "{What do we have in common}? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." Then the king of Israel said to him, "No, for Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.

Verse ConceptsReapers

Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the servant, "Carry him to his mother."

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Carrying Live PeopleDeath Of A Motherhurting

But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, [if] the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done [it]? [Why not] even when he says to you, 'Wash and you shall be clean'?"

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodNamed Prophets Of The LordExamples Of Good Servants

Then the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, "Shall I kill them? Shall I kill, my father?"

Verse ConceptsVindictivenessDuplicating WordsApproval To Kill

He said to Bidkar his third [servant], "Lift [him] out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I [were] with the pair [of chariots] behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him:

then you must select the best and the most suitable from the sons of your master, and you must place [him] on the throne of his father, and they must fight for the house of your masters."

Verse ConceptsThroneChoosing PeopleFighting One Another

Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!"

Verse ConceptsHorsesVisitingWeepingDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfVisiting Of The SickVisitationDuplicating WordsHeavenly ChariotsHow Death Is InevitableSick IndividualsMourning In RegretList Of Kings Of IsraelIllnesscancer

Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities from the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael which he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father in the war. Three times Jehoash defeated him and recovered the towns of Israel.

Verse ConceptsActing Three TimesCapturing Cities

He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor; as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did.

Verse ConceptsKingship, HumanNot Imitating GoodPeople Who Did Right

It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.

All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.

Verse ConceptsAge When CrownedMaking KingsKings Of All Israel Or Judah

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

Verse ConceptsGood Kings Examples OfImitating Good KingsPeople Who Did Right

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

Verse ConceptsGood Kings Examples OfImitating Good KingsPeople Who Did Right

He returned and rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal and made a pole of Asherah worship just as Ahab king of Israel had made, and he bowed down to all of the host of heaven and served them.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsFalse ReligionBowingAltars, PaganBuilding AltarsList Of Kings Of IsraelServing Asherah

He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done.

He walked in all of the way which his father had walked, and he served the idols which his father had served and bowed down to them.

So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtAnointing KingsCorpses Of Other PeopleKings Of All Israel Or Judah

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz and brought [him] to Egypt, and he died there.

Verse ConceptsKings ExiledPeople Renaming PeopleKings Of All Israel Or Judah

He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father had done.

Verse ConceptsInexperience

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Beget (22 instances)
Begetter (1 instance)
Forefather (47 instances)
Founder (7 instances)
Generate (1 instance)
Mother (376 instances)
Parent (5 instances)