Quotes About Relationships

Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar son of Hagri,

And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Eleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.

His relatives through Eliezer included Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ëGive your daughter to my son in marriage.í Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

If my heart has been enticed by my neighborís wife, or I have lurked at his door,

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own motherís son.

But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.

My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.