Quotes About Family

“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ëNeither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.

And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.

at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.í

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ëLike mother, like daughter.í

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,

though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighborís wife.

and say: ëWhat was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.

One man commits an abomination with his neighborís wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own fatherís daughter.

“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,

A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëIf the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.

Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—

But one from her family line will rise up in his place, come against the army of the king of the North, and enter his fortress, fighting and prevailing.

So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.

“Say of your brothers, ëMy people,í and of your sisters, ëMy loved one.í