12 occurrences

'Father's' in the Bible

Behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father’s house so that there will not be an old man in your house.

Verse ConceptsAmputationsFuture GenerationsLimitations Of StrengthJudgement On Old PeopleFamily StrengthFamily First

As for your donkeys which were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s household?”

Verse ConceptsThree DaysFinding ThingsBeing Lost

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock at Bethlehem.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessThose Who Kept Stock

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

Verse ConceptsExemptGetting RichGiving In Marriage

But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyAnimals, Types OfBearsThose Who Kept StockDeerbeer

Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father’s house.

Verse ConceptsPeople not returning

But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”

Verse ConceptsClansHumilityMinistry, Qualifications ForTimiditySons In LawI Am Unimportant

So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingCavesPeople In Caves

Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

But the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!”

Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have brought about the death of every person in your father’s household.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

So now swear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s household.”

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutChildren Suffering

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