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When Abram prostrated himself, God continued to speak to him: "My covenant with you is this: you are to become the father of a host of nations. No longer shall you be called Abram; your name shall be Abraham, for I am making you the father of a host of nations. I will render you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings shall stem from you. I will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you." [GEN
17:3-7]
As for Ishmael, I am heeding you: I hereby bless him. I will
make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall
become the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a
great nation. [GEN 17:20]
From there Isaac went up to Beer-sheba. The same night the LORD appeared to him and said: "I am the God of your father Abraham. You have no need to fear, since I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham." [GEN
26:23-24]
Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and proceeded toward Haran. When he came upon a certain shrine, as the sun had already set, he stopped there for the night. Taking one of the stones at the shrine, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep at that spot. Then he had a dream: a stairway rested on the ground, with its top reaching to the heavens; and God's messengers were going up and down on it. And there was the LORD standing beside him and saying: "I, the LORD, am the God of your forefather Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I will give to you and your descendants. These shall be as plentiful as the dust of the earth, and through them you shall spread out east and west, north and south. In you and your descendants all the nations of the earth shall find blessing. Know that I am with you; I will protect you wherever you go, and bring you back to this land. I will never leave you until I have done what I promised you." [GEN
28:10-15]
Early the next morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head, set it up as a memorial stone, and poured oil on top of it. He called that site Bethel, whereas the former name of the town had been Luz. Jacob then made this vow: "If God remains with me, to protect me on this journey I am making and to give me enough bread to eat and clothing to wear, and I come back safe to my father's house, the LORD shall be my God. This stone that I have set up as a memorial stone shall be God's abode. Of everything you give me, I will faithfully return a tenth part to you." [GEN
28:18-22]
So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him where he was in the field with his flock. There he said to them: "I have noticed that your father's attitude toward me is not as it was in the past; but the God of my father has been with me. You well know what effort I put into serving your father; yet your father cheated me and changed my wages time after time. God, however, did not let him do me any harm." [GEN
31:4-7]
Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic. When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even greet him. [GEN
37:3-4]
There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called, "Jacob! Jacob!" "Here I am," he answered. Then he said: "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation. Not only will I go down to Egypt with you; I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes." [GEN
46:2-4]
Then Joseph took the two, Ephraim with his right hand, to Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand, to Israel's right, and led them to him. But Israel, crossing his hands, put out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, although he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, although he was the first-born. Then he blessed them with these words:
"May the God in whose ways my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been my shepherd from my birth to this day, The Angel who has delivered me from all harm, bless these boys
That in them my name be recalled, and the names of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac,
And they may become teeming multitudes upon the earth!" When Joseph saw that his father had laid his right hand on Ephraim's head, this seemed wrong to him; so he took hold of his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's, saying, "That is not right, father; the other one is the first-born; lay your right hand on his head!" But his father resisted. "I know it, son," he said, "I know. That one too shall become a tribe, and he too shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall surpass him, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations."
[GEN 48:13-19]
Jacob called his sons and said: "Gather around, that I may tell you what is to happen to you in days to come.
Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob, listen to Israel, your father." [GEN
49:1-2]
"But," said Moses to God, "when I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' if they ask me, 'What is his name?' what am I to tell them?" God replied, "I am who am." Then he added, "This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you." God spoke further to Moses, "Thus shall you say to
the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is my title for all generations.
Go and assemble the elders of the Israelites, and tell them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I am concerned about you and about the way you are being treated in Egypt; so I have decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey." [EX
3:13-17]
My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my
savior. He is my God, I praise him; the God of my father, I extol
him. [EX 15:2]
You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers' wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments. [EX
20:4-6]
Revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths. I, the
LORD, am your God. [LEV 19:3]
Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies will waste away for their own and their fathers' guilt. "Thus they will have to confess that they and their fathers were guilty of having rebelled against me and of having defied me, so that I, too, had to defy them and bring them into their enemies' land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their guilt, I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; and of the land, too, I will be mindful." [LEV
26:39-42]
Since the LORD, your God, is a merciful God, he will not
abandon and destroy you, nor forget the covenant which under oath
he made with your fathers. [DEUT 4:31]
"For love of your fathers he chose their descendants and personally led you out of Egypt by his great power, driving out of your way nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to make their land your heritage, as it is today. This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other. You must keep his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever." [DEUT
4:37-40]
Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and decrees which I proclaim in your hearing this day, that you may learn them and take care to observe them. The LORD, our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb; not with our fathers did he make this covenant, but with us, all of us who are alive here this day.
The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire." [DEUT
5:1-4]
'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD, your God, has
commanded you, that you may have a long life and prosperity in the
land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.' [DEUT 5:16]
"Later on, when your son asks you what these ordinances, statutes and decrees mean which the LORD, our God, has enjoined on you, you shall say to your son, 'We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house. He brought us from there to lead us into the land he promised on oath to our fathers, and to give it to us. Therefore, the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the LORD, our God, that we may always have as prosperous and happy a life as we have today; and our justice before the LORD, our God, is to consist in carefully observing all these commandments he has enjoined on us.'" [DEUT
6:20-25]
It was because the LORD loved you and because of his fidelity
to the oath he had sworn to your fathers, that he brought you out
with his strong hand from the place of slavery, and ransomed you
from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. [DEUT 7:8]
"As your reward for heeding these decrees and observing
them carefully, the LORD, your God, will keep with you the
merciful covenant which he promised on oath to your fathers." [DEUT
7:12]
The Rock - how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways!
A faithful God, without deceit, how just and upright he is! Yet basely has he been treated by his degenerate children, a perverse and crooked race! Is the LORD to be thus repaid by you, O stupid and foolish people?
Is he not your father who created you? Has he not made you and established you? [DEUT
32:4-6]
An angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said,
"It was I who brought you up from Egypt and led you into the
land which I promised on oath to your fathers. I said that I would
never break my covenant with you" [JUDG 2:1]
But once the rest of that generation were gathered to their fathers, and a later generation arose that did not know the LORD, or what he had done for Israel, the Israelites offended the LORD by serving the Baals. Abandoning the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had led them out of the land of Egypt, they followed the other gods of the various nations around them, and by their worship of these gods provoked the LORD. Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the Ashtaroth, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, and he delivered them over to plunderers who despoiled them. He allowed them to fall into the power of their enemies round about whom they were no longer able to withstand. Whatever they undertook, the LORD turned into disaster for them, as in his warning he had sworn he would do, till they were in great distress. Even when the LORD raised up judges to deliver them from the power of their despoilers, they did not listen to their judges, but abandoned themselves to the worship of other gods. They were quick to stray from the way their fathers had taken, and did not follow their example of obedience to the commandments of the LORD.
[JUDG 2:10-17]
In his anger toward Israel the LORD said, "Inasmuch as this nation has violated my covenant which I enjoined on their fathers, and has disobeyed me, I for my part will not clear away for them any more of the nations which Joshua left when he died." Through these nations the Israelites were to be made to prove whether or not they would keep to the way of the LORD and continue in it as their fathers had done; therefore the LORD allowed them to remain instead of expelling them immediately, or delivering them into the power of Israel.
[JUDG 2:20-23]
A man of God came to Eli and said to him: "This is what the LORD says: 'I went so far as to reveal myself to your father's family when they were in Egypt as slaves to the house of Pharaoh. I chose them out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priests, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear the ephod before me; and I assigned all the oblations of the Israelites to your father's family.'" [1SAM
2:27-28]
(By the time David finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan had become as fond of David as if his life depended on him; he loved him as he loved himself. Saul laid claim to David that day and did not allow him to return to his father's house.) [1SAM
18:1-2]
Saul discussed his intention of killing David with his son Jonathan and with all his servants. But Saul's son Jonathan, who was very fond of David, told him: "My father Saul is trying to kill you. Therefore, please be on your guard tomorrow morning; get out of sight and remain in hiding. I, however, will go out and stand beside my father in the countryside where you are, and will speak to him about you. If I learn anything, I will let you know." [1SAM
19:1-3]
"'And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I will make his kingdom firm. It is he who shall build a house for my name. And I will make his royal throne firm forever. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he does wrong, I will correct him with the rod of men and with human chastisements; but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from your predecessor Saul, whom I removed from my presence. Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever.'" [2SAM
7:12-16]
Then even the brave man with the heart of a lion will lose
courage. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and
that those who are with him are brave. [2SAM 17:10]
Solomon was seated on the throne of his father David, with
his sovereignty firmly established [Taken from 1KGS 2:12]
The king said to Abiathar the priest: "Go to your land in
Anathoth. Though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death
this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my
father David and shared in all the hardships my father
endured." [1KGS 2:26]
Solomon loved the LORD, and obeyed the statutes of his father
David; yet he offered sacrifice and burned incense on the high
places. [1KGS 3:3]
Solomon answered: "You have shown great favor to your servant, my father David, because he behaved faithfully toward you, with justice and an upright heart; and you have continued this great favor toward him, even today, seating a son of his on his throne. O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act. I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted. Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong. For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?" The LORD was pleased that Solomon made this request. So God said to him: "Because you have asked for
this - not for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies, but for understanding so that you may know what is
right - I do as you requested. I give you a heart so wise and understanding that there has never been anyone like you up to now, and after you there will come no one to equal you. In addition, I give you what you have not asked for, such riches and glory that among kings there is not your like. And if you follow me by keeping my statutes and commandments, as your father David did, I will give you a long life." [1KGS
3:6-14]
May the LORD, our God, be with us as he was with our fathers
and may he not forsake us nor cast us off. May he draw our hearts to himself, that we may follow him in
everything and keep the commands, statutes, and ordinances which
he enjoined on our fathers. [1KGS 8:57-58]
As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived, sincerely and uprightly, doing just as I have commanded you, keeping my statutes and decrees, I will establish your throne of sovereignty over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, 'You shall always have someone from your line on the throne of Israel.'
[1KGS 9:4-5]
Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not follow
him unreservedly as his father David had done. [1KGS 11:6]
Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by their sins
angered him even more than their fathers had done. [1KGS 14:22]
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah; he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, daughter of Abishalom. He imitated all the sins his father had committed before him, and his heart was not entirely with the LORD, his God, like the heart of his grandfather David. Yet for David's sake the LORD, his God, gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, raising up his son after him and permitting Jerusalem to endure; because David had pleased the LORD and did not disobey any of his commands as long as he lived, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite. [1KGS
15:1-5]
In the second year of Asa, king of Judah, Nadab, son of Jeroboam, became king of Israel; he reigned over Israel two years. He did evil in the LORD'S sight, imitating his father's conduct and the sin which he had caused Israel to commit. [1KGS
15:25-26]
Elijah was afraid and fled for his life, going to Beer-sheba of Judah. He left his servant there and went a day's journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: "This is enough, O LORD! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. [1KGS
19:3-5]
And though the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet
and seer, "Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments
and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined
on your fathers and which I sent you by my servants the
prophets," they did not listen, but were as stiff-necked as their fathers,
who had not believed in the LORD, their God. [2KGS 17:13-14]
"Therefore, tell my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you might become ruler over my people Israel. I was with you wherever you went, and I cut down all your enemies before you. I will make your name great like that of the greatest on the earth. I will assign a place for my people Israel and I will plant them in it to dwell there henceforth undisturbed; nor shall wicked men ever again oppress them, as they did at first, and during all the time when I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that I, the LORD, will build you a house; so that when your days have been completed and you must join your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you who will be one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He it is who shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me, and I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from him who preceded you; but I will maintain him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be firmly established forever." [1CHRON
17:7-14]
Then he called for his son Solomon and commanded him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel. David said to Solomon: "My son, it was my purpose to build a house myself for the honor of the LORD, my God. But this word of the LORD came to me: 'You have shed much blood, and you have waged great wars. You may not build a house in my honor, because you have shed too much blood upon the earth in my sight.
However, a son is to be born to you. He will be a peaceful man, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. For Solomon shall be his name, and in his time I will bestow peace and
tranquility on Israel. It is he who shall build a house in my honor; he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him, and I will establish the throne of his kingship over Israel forever.' Now, my son, the LORD be with you, and may you succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has said you shall."
[1CHRON 22:6-11]
However, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from all my
father's family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah
as leader, then one family of Judah, that of my father; and
finally, among all the sons of my father, it pleased him to make
me king over all Israel. [1CHRON 28:4]
For he said to me: 'It is your son Solomon who shall build my
house and my courts, for I have chosen him for my son, and I will
be a father to him.' [1CHRON 28:6]
"As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father
and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing soul, for the
LORD searches all hearts and understands all the mind's thoughts.
If you seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if you
abandon him, he will cast you off forever." [1CHRON 28:9]
Then David blessed the LORD in the presence of the whole
assembly, praying in these words: "Blessed may you be, O
LORD, God of Israel our father, from eternity to eternity." [1CHRON
29:10]
For we stand before you as aliens: we are only your guests,
like all our fathers. Our life on earth is like a shadow that does
not abide. [1CHRON 29:15]
"Now the LORD has fulfilled the promise that he made. I have
succeeded my father David and have taken my seat on the throne of
Israel, as the LORD foretold, and I have built the temple to the
honor of the LORD, the God of Israel." [2CHRON 6:10]
You have kept the promise you made to my father David, your
servant. With your own mouth you spoke it, and by your own hand
you have brought it to fulfillment this day. Now, therefore, LORD, God of Israel, keep the further promise
you made to my father David, your servant, when you said, 'You
shall always have someone from your line to sit before me on the
throne of Israel, provided only that your descendants look to
their conduct so as always to live according to my law, even as
you have lived in my presence.' [2CHRON 6:15-16]
In the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign, Baasha, king of Israel, attacked Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent any communication with Asa, king of Judah. Asa then brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace and sent them to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, with this message: "There is a treaty between you and me, as there was between your father and my father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha, king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me." [2CHRON
16:1-3]
The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the ways his
father had pursued in the beginning, and he did not consult the
Baals. Rather, he sought the God of his father and observed his
commands, and not the practices of Israel. [2CHRON 17:3-4]
Our fathers acted faithlessly and did evil in the eyes of the
LORD, our God. They abandoned him, turned away their faces from
the LORD'S dwelling, and turned their backs on him. [2CHRON 29:6]
Be not like your fathers and your brethren who proved faithless
to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he delivered them
over to desolation, as you yourselves now see. Be not obstinate, as your fathers were; extend your hands to
the LORD and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated
forever, and serve the LORD, your God, that he may turn away his
burning anger from you. [2CHRON 30:7-8]
Then Tobiah called Raphael and said to him: "Brother Azariah, take along with you four servants and two camels and travel to Rages. Go to Gabael's house and give him this bond. Get the money and then bring him along with you to the wedding celebration. For you know that my father is counting the days. If I should delay my return by a single day, I would cause him intense grief. You witnessed the oath that Raguel has sworn; I cannot violate his oath."
[TOBIT 9:1-4]
We must provide for the future, so as to render the kingdom undisturbed and peaceful for all men, taking advantage of changing conditions and deciding always with
equitable treatment matters coming to our attention. "For instance, Haman, son of Hammedatha, a Macedonian, certainly not of Persian blood, and very different from us in generosity, was hospitably received by us. He so far enjoyed the good will which we have toward all peoples that he was proclaimed
'father of the king,' before whom everyone was to bow down; he attained the rank second to the royal throne. But, unequal to this dignity, he strove to deprive us of kingdom and of life; and by weaving intricate webs of deceit, he demanded the destruction of Mordecai, our savior and constant benefactor, and of Esther, our blameless royal consort, together with their whole race."
[ESTH E:8-13]
But Mattathias answered in a loud voice: "Although all the Gentiles in the king's realm obey him, so that each forsakes the religion of his fathers and consents to the king's orders, yet I and my sons and my kinsmen will keep to the covenant of our fathers. God forbid that we should forsake the law and the commandments. We will not obey the words of the king nor depart from our religion in the slightest degree." [1MACC
2:19-22]
Therefore, my sons, be zealous for the law and give your lives
for the covenant of our fathers. [1MACC 2:50]
"Remember the deeds that our fathers did in their times,
and you shall win great glory and an everlasting name." [1MACC
2:51]
"Here is your brother Simeon who I know is a wise man;
listen to him always, and he will be a father to you." [1MACC 2:65]
"To my esteemed Jewish citizens, Antiochus, their king and general, sends hearty greetings and best wishes for their health and happiness. If you and your children are well and your affairs are going as you wish, I thank God very much, for my hopes are in heaven. Now that I am ill, I recall with affection the esteem and good will you bear me. On returning from the regions of Persia, I fell victim to a troublesome illness; so I thought it necessary to form plans for the general welfare of all. Actually, I do not despair about my health, since I have great hopes of recovering from my illness. Nevertheless, I know that my father, whenever he went on campaigns in the hinterland, would name his successor, so that, if anything unexpected happened or any unwelcome news came, the people throughout the realm would know to whom the government had been entrusted, and so not be disturbed." [2MACC
9:19-24]
If you inquire of the former generations, and give heed to the experience of the fathers (As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow), Will they not teach you and tell you and utter their words of understanding?
[JOB 8:8-10]
I was a father to the needy; the rights of the stranger I
studied [JOB 29:16]
I will proclaim the decree of the LORD, who said to me,
"You are my son; today I am your father." [PS 2:7]
Even if my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will take me
in. [PS 27:10]
Listen, my daughter, and understand; pay me careful heed. Forget your people and your father's house, that the king might desire your beauty.
He is your lord; honor him, daughter of Tyre. Then the richest of the people will seek your favor with gifts. All glorious is the king's daughter as she enters, her raiment threaded with gold; In
embroidered apparel she is led to the king. The maids of her train are presented to the king. They are led in with glad and joyous acclaim; they enter the palace of the king. The throne of your fathers your sons will have; you shall make them princes through all the land. I will make your name renowned through all generations; thus nations shall praise you forever. [PS 45:11-18]
Sing to God, praise the divine name; exalt the rider of the clouds.
Rejoice before this God whose name is the LORD. Father of the fatherless, defender of
widows - this is the God whose abode is holy, Who gives a home to the forsaken, who leads prisoners out to prosperity, while rebels live in the desert. [PS
68:5-7]
Defend the lowly and fatherless; render justice to the
afflicted and needy. [PS 82:3]
I have chosen David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him. My hand will be with him; my arm will make him strong. No enemy shall outwit him, nor shall the wicked defeat him. I will crush his foes before him, strike down those who hate him. My loyalty and love will be with him; through my name his horn will be exalted. I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers. He shall cry to
me, 'You are my father, my God, the Rock that brings me victory!' I myself make him firstborn, Most High over the kings of the earth. Forever I will maintain my love for him; my covenant with him stands firm.
[PS 89:21-29]
How long, LORD, shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked glory? How long will they mouth haughty speeches, go on boasting, all these evildoers? They crush your people, LORD, torment your very own. They kill the widow and alien; the fatherless they murder. They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice."
Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you be wise? Does the one who shaped the ear not hear? The one who formed the eye not see? [PS
94:3-9]
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has
compassion on the faithful. [PS 103:13]
O God, whom I praise, do not be silent, for wicked and treacherous mouths attack me.
They speak against me with lying tongues; with hateful words they surround me, attacking me without cause. In return for my love they slander me, even though I prayed for them. They repay me evil for good,
hatred for my love. My enemies say of me: "Find a lying witness, an accuser to stand by his right hand, That he may be judged and found guilty, that his plea may be in vain. May his days be few; may another take his office. May his children be fatherless, his wife, a widow. May his children be vagrant beggars, driven from their hovels. May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns. May no one treat him kindly or pity his fatherless children. May his posterity be destroyed, his name cease in the next generation. May the LORD remember his fathers' guilt; his mother's sin not be canceled. May their guilt be always before the LORD,
till their memory is banished from the earth, For he did not remember to show kindness, but hounded the wretched poor and brought death to the brokenhearted. He loved cursing; may it come upon him; he hated blessing; may none come to him."
[PS
109:2-17]
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching; A graceful diadem will they be for your head; a torque for your neck.
[PROV 1:8-9]
Hear, O children, a father's instruction, be attentive, that you may gain understanding! Yes, excellent advice I give you; my teaching do not forsake. When I was my father's child, frail, yet the darling of my mother, He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart hold fast my words: keep my commands, that you may live!
Get wisdom, get understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words I utter. Forsake her not, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will safeguard you; The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; at the cost of all you have, get understanding. Extol her, and she will exalt you; she will bring you honors if you embrace her; She will put on your head a graceful diadem; a glorious crown will she bestow on you." [PROV
4:1-9]
Observe, my son, your father's bidding, and reject not your mother's teaching; Keep them fastened over your heart always, put them around your neck; For the bidding is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and a way to life are the reproofs of
discipline [PROV 6:20-23]
A wise son makes his father glad, but
a foolish son is a grief to his mother. [PROV 10:1]
The fool spurns his father's admonition, but prudent is he who
heeds reproof. [PROV 15:5]
A wise son makes his father glad, but a fool of a man despises
his mother. [PROV 15:20]
To be a fool's parent is grief for a man; the father of a
numskull has no joy. [PROV 17:21]
A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitter sorrow to
her who bore him. [PROV 17:25]
The foolish son is ruin to his father, and the nagging of a
wife is a persistent leak. [PROV 19:13]
He who mistreats his father, or drives away his mother, is a
worthless and disgraceful son. [PROV 19:26]
If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the
coming of darkness. [PROV 20:20]
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers set up.
[PROV 22:28]
Listen to your father who begot you, and despise not your
mother when she is old. [PROV 23:22]
The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a
wise son will have joy in him. [PROV 23:24]
Let your father and mother have joy; let her who bore you
exult. [PROV 23:25]
Your own friend and your father's friend forsake not; but if
ruin befalls you, enter not a kinsman's house. Better is a
neighbor near at hand than a brother far away. [PROV 27:10]
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but the gluttons' companion
disgraces his father. [PROV 28:7]
He who defrauds father or mother and calls it no sin, is a
partner of the brigand. [PROV 28:24]
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but he who consorts
with harlots squanders his wealth. [PROV 29:3]
The eye that mocks a father, or scorns an aged mother, Will be
plucked out by the ravens in the valley; the young eagles will
devour it. [PROV 30:17]
Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings,
Reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. He professes to have knowledge of God and styles himself a child of the LORD. To us he is the censure of our thoughts; merely to see him is a hardship for us, Because his life is not like other men's, and different are his ways. He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.
He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that God is his Father. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him. For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes. With revilement and torture let us put him to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. [WISDOM
2:12-19]
God of my fathers, LORD of mercy. you who have made all things by your word And in your wisdom have established man to rule the creatures produced by you, To govern the world in holiness and justice, and to render judgment in integrity of heart: Give me Wisdom, the attendant at your throne, and reject me not from among your children; For I am your servant, the son of your handmaid, a man weak and short-lived and lacking in comprehension of judgment and of laws. Indeed, though one be perfect among the sons of men, if Wisdom, who comes from you, be not with him, he shall be held in no esteem.
[WISDOM 9:1-6]
For [wisdom] knows and understands all things, and will guide me discreetly in my affairs and safeguard me by her glory; Thus my deeds will be acceptable, and I shall judge your people justly and be worthy of my father's throne.
[Taken from WISDOM 9:11-12]
[Wisdom] preserved the first-formed father of the world when he alone had been created;
And she raised him up from his fall, and gave him power to rule all things.
[Taken from WISDOM 10:1-2]
For when they had been tried, though only mildly chastised, they recognized how the wicked, condemned in anger, were being tormented. Both those afar off and those close by were afflicted: the latter you tested, admonishing them as a father; the former as a stern king you probed and condemned. For a twofold grief took hold of them and a groaning at the remembrance of the ones who had departed. For when they heard that the cause of their own torments was a benefit to these others, they recognized the Lord. [WISDOM 11:9-13]
Children, pay heed to a father's right; do so that you may
live. For the LORD sets a father in honor over his children; a
mother's authority he confirms over her sons. [SIRACH 3:1-2]
He who honors his father atones for sins; he stores up riches who reveres his mother.
[SIRACH 3:3-4]
He who honors his father is gladdened by children, and when he
prays he is heard. [SIRACH 3:5]
He who reveres his father will live a long life; he obeys the
LORD who brings comfort to his mother. [SIRACH 3:6]
He who fears the LORD honors his father, and serves his parents
as rulers. [SIRACH 3:7]
In word and deed honor your father that his blessing may come upon you; For a father's blessing gives a family firm roots, but a mother's curse uproots the growing plant. [SIRACH 3:8-9]
Glory not in your father's shame, for his shame is no glory to
you! [SIRACH 3:10]
His father's honor is a man's glory; disgrace for her children,
a mother's shame. [SIRACH 3:11]
My son, take care of your father when he is old; grieve him not as long as he lives. Even if his mind fail, be considerate with him; revile him not in the fullness of your strength. For kindness to a father will not be forgotten, it will serve as a sin
offering - it will take lasting root. In time of tribulation it will be recalled to your advantage, like warmth upon frost it will melt away your sins.
[SIRACH 3:12-15]
A blasphemer is he who despises his father; accursed of his
Creator, he who angers his mother. [SIRACH 3:16]
To the fatherless be as a father, and help their mother as a
husband would; Thus will you be like a son to the Most High, and
he will be more tender to you than a mother. [SIRACH 4:10]
With your whole heart honor your father; your mother's
birthpangs forget not. [SIRACH 7:27]
Reject not the tradition of old men which they have learned
from their fathers; From it you will obtain the knowledge how to
answer in time of need. [SIRACH 8:9]
An unruly child is a disgrace to its father; if it be a
daughter she brings him to poverty. [SIRACH 22:3]
A thoughtful daughter becomes a treasure to her husband, a
shameless one is her father's grief. [SIRACH 22:4]
A hussy shames her father and her husband; by both she is
despised. [SIRACH 22:5]
Who will set a guard over my mouth, and upon my lips an
effective seal, That I may not fail through them, that my tongue
may not destroy me? LORD, Father and Master of my life, permit me not to fall by
them! Who will apply the lash to my thoughts, to my mind the rod of discipline,
That my failings may not be spared, nor the sins of my heart overlooked; Lest my failings increase, and my sins be multiplied;
Lest I succumb to my foes, and my enemy rejoice over me? LORD, Father and God of my life, abandon me not into their control!
[SIRACH 22:27,23:1-4]
Keep your father and mother in mind when you sit among the
mighty, Lest in their presence you commit a blunder and disgrace
your upbringing, By wishing you had never been born or cursing the
day of your birth. [SIRACH 23:14]
At the father's death, he will seem not dead, since he leaves after him one like himself, Whom he looks upon through life with joy, and even in death, without
regret [Taken from SIRACH 30:4-5]
Like the man who slays a son in his father's presence is he who
offers sacrifice from the possessions of the poor. [SIRACH 34:20]
Children curse their wicked father, for they suffer disgrace
through him. [SIRACH 41:7]
My children, heed my instruction about shame; judge of disgrace only according to my rules,
For it is not always well to be ashamed, nor is it always the proper thing to blush: Before father and mother be ashamed of immorality, before master and mistress, of falsehood; Before prince and ruler, of flattery; before the public assembly, of crime; Of repeating what you hear, and of betraying
secrets - These are the things you should rightly avoid as shameful if you would be looked upon by everyone with favor. [SIRACH
41:14-16,23-24]
A daughter is a treasure that keeps her father wakeful, and
worry over her drives away rest [Taken from SIRACH
42:9]
Abraham, father of many peoples, kept his glory without stain: He observed the precepts of the Most High, and entered into an agreement with him;
In his own flesh he incised the ordinance, and when tested he was found loyal. For this reason, God promised him with an oath that in his descendants the nations would be blessed,
That he would make him numerous as the grains of dust, and exalt his posterity like the stars;
That he would give them an inheritance from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. And for
Isaac he renewed the same promise because of Abraham, his father. The covenant with all his forebears was confirmed, and the blessing rested upon the head of
Jacob. God acknowledged him as the first-born, and gave him his inheritance.
He fixed the boundaries for his tribes, and their division into twelve.
[SIRACH 44:19-23]
How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to yours? You brought a dead man back to life from the nether world, by the will of the LORD. You sent kings down to destruction, and nobles, from their beds of sickness. You heard threats at Sinai, at Horeb avenging judgments. You anointed kings who should inflict vengeance, and a prophet as your successor. You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses. You are destined, it is written, in time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD,
To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons, and to reestablish the tribes of Jacob.
[SIRACH 48:4-10]
I give you thanks, O God of my father; I praise you, O God my
savior! I will make known your name, refuge of my life [SIRACH
51:1]
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