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'Family' in the Bible

And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

And he said to him, "Pray, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manas'seh, and I am the least in my family."

Verse ConceptsExcusesClansdoubtersInferiorityMinistry, Qualifications ForModestyWeakness, PhysicalLeadershipHumility, Examples OfThe Youngest ChildWithout StrengthDepressiongideon

So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had told him; but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleDuring One NightFearing Other Peoplegideon

And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

Verse ConceptsephodsProstitutionTrapEvil Trapping

and they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubba'al (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeKindnessMannersUnfaithful

Now Abim'elech the son of Jerubba'al went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,

Verse ConceptsPlotting

Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol in the tomb of Mano'ah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

Verse ConceptsTombsCemetery20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

And they said to him, "Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?"

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

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