'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.
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.
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."
The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.
Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the servant, "Carry him to his mother."
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'?"
Then the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, "Shall I kill them? Shall I kill, my father?"
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."
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!"
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.
He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor; as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did.
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.
He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.
He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father had done.
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.
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.
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.
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father had done.
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