Quotes About Family

Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

“Very well,” Bathsheba replied. “I will speak to the king for you.”

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.

So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);

Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);

But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.

And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaohís palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.

“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.

So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,

But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

Then Jeroboamís wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

And the length of Jeroboamís reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his motherís name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His motherís name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmotherís name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

And Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah reigned in his place.

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”