(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.

He did what the Lord approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them.

But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.

‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Asa did what the Lord approved like his ancestor David had done.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.