'Father' in the Bible

And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

And the king of Israel, when he saw them, said to Elisha, My father, am I to put them to the sword?

Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:

Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

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

He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.