When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian’s power.

Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.

Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.

When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Should I strike them down, my master?”

Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai.

These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrath: Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim,

The sons of Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim, were Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,

These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. Their sister was Hazzelelponi.

Kelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

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.

Solomon replied to God, “You demonstrated great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

Now I am sending you Huram Abi, a skilled and capable man,

Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.