'Father' in the Bible

As Elisha continued to watch, he cried out, "My father! My father! The chariots of Israel and its cavalry!" Then he did not see Elijah anymore.

practicing evil in the LORD's presence, only not to the extent that his mother and father had done he forced abolition of the sacred pillar to Baal that his father had crafted.

After the child had grown up a bit, one day he went out to visit his father, who was with the harvesters.

He told his father, "My head! My head!"

So his father ordered his servant, "Carry him over to his mother!" So the servant carried him over to his mother, where he rested on her lap until mid-day, and then he died.

But then his servants approached him and spoke with him. They said, "My father, had the prophet only asked of you something great, you would have done it, wouldn't you? Yet he told you, "Bathe, and be clean"!'"

When the king of Israel saw Elisha, he asked him, "Shall I execute them, my father?"

After this, Jehu called out to Bidkar, his third in command, "Pick up Joram's body and throw it in the field, the property that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite, because you and I remember how when we were riding together in pursuit of his father Ahab, that the LORD pronounced this oracle against him:

When Elisha fell ill with the sickness from which he was about to die, King Joash of Israel came down to see him, wept in his presence, and told him, "My father, Israel's chariots and horsemen!"

At that time, Jehoahaz's son Jehoash recaptured from Hazael's son Ben-hadad the cities that Hazael had captured through warfare from the control of Jehoahaz, Jehoash's father. Joash defeated and recovered cities of Israel from Ben-hadad three times.

He practiced what the LORD considered to be right, but not like his ancestor David did. He acted as his father Joash had done,

Later on, as soon as he was in firm control of his kingdom, he executed the servants who had murdered his father the king,

All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and installed him as King to take the place of his father Amaziah.

He did what the LORD considered to be right, just as his father Amaziah had done in everything,

He did what the LORD considered to be right, following everything his father Uzziah had done,

"Some of your descendants your very own seed, whom you will father will be carried away to become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal, crafted an Asherah, just as King Ahab of Israel had done, and worshipped and served the stars of heaven.

He practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, just as his father Manasseh had done,

because he completely adopted his father's lifestyle, serving the same idols his father had served and worshipped.

Pharaoh Neco installed Josiah's son Eliakim as king to replace his father Josiah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He transported Jehoahaz off to Egypt, where he died.