Quotes About Fathers

And Menahem rested with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah reigned in his place.

Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.í”

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”

ëTherefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.í” So they brought her answer back to the king.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.

And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:

Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them into exile and who was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

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

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

And others will answer, ëBecause they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.í”

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

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

Thus the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.

So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.

These are their numbers according to the houses of their fathers: From Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him 300,000 mighty men of valor;

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his rule at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.

Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book 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.”