Quotes About Fathers

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

And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings; for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

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

But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.

And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of Davidís descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”

ëNow 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 and on its inhabitants.í” So they brought her answer back to the king.

But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.

Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.

With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.