Quotes About Fathers

So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.

so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”

And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.í”

For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

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 Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.

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

And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.

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

Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David.

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

And Jehoash rested with his fathers, and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.

And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And his son Zechariah reigned in his place.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.