Quotes About Heritage

“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.

“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.

That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.

to those in Racal and in the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites;

And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”

And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;

his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,

Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.

Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.

Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,

Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash,

Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan

son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,

Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

Igal son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

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

Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;