When the man got ready to leave, his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night.

Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

He did evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they gave him advice that led to his destruction.

The Lord will bring on you, your people, and your father’s family a time unlike any since Ephraim departed from Judah – the king of Assyria!”

With her dying breath, she named him Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.

He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved.

So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

David said, “I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites,

David said, “I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father’s death. When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king’s sympathy,

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? And in another place he says, “I will be his father and he will be my son.”

The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, who was born to Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.