<p class="poetry">May his ancestors&#8217;<n id="1" /> sins be remembered by the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">May his mother&#8217;s sin not be forgotten!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed<n id="1" /> I am composed and quiet,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a young child carried by its mother;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I am content like the young child I carry.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The Proverbs of Solomon:p> <p class="poetry">A wise child<n id="2" /> makes a father rejoice,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but a foolish child<n id="4" /> is a grief to his mother.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">As a mother consoles a child,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so I will console you,p> <p class="poetry">and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">That is why<n id="1" /> a man leaves<n id="2" /> his father and mother and unites with<n id="3" /> his wife, and they become a new family.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But Esau my brother is a hairy man,&#8221; Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, &#8220;and I have smooth skin!<n id="1" />

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If anyone<n id="2" /> curses his father and mother<n id="3" /> he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.<n id="4" />

The Israelite woman&#8217;s son misused the Name and cursed,<n id="1" /> so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother&#8217;s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

<p class="bodytext">If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,<n id="1" />

&#8216;Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

When he gave the silver back to his mother, she<n id="1" /> took two hundred pieces of silver<n id="2" /> to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah&#8217;s house.<n id="3" />

His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it up to him at regular intervals when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice.

The king responded, &#8220;Give the first woman the living child; don&#8217;t kill him. She is the mother.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon&#8217;s servants, rebelled against<n id="1" /> the king. He was an Ephraimite<n id="2" /> from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

Rehoboam passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah<n id="2" /> replaced him as king.p>

He also removed Maacah his grandmother<n id="1" /> from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and followed in the footsteps<n id="2" /> of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="3" />

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter<n id="2" /> of King Omri of Israel.