Quotes About Family

saying, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ëYour silver and gold are mine, and your best wives and children are mine!í”

The messengers came back and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ëI have sent to you to demand your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.

Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”

And Ahab rested with his fathers, and his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His motherís name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

And Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoram reigned in his place.

Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”

So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”

So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”

And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Please run out now to meet her and ask, ëAre you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?í” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”

Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.

And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.

Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”

And Jehu rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Jehoahaz reigned in his place.

But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David, and his son Amaziah reigned in his place.

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

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