Quotes about Father
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
— 1 Kings 2:10
And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
— 1 Kings 3:3
Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
— 1 Kings 5:1
“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
— 1 Kings 5:3
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
— 1 Kings 6:12
and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
— 1 Kings 8:15
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
— 1 Kings 8:17
So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
— 1 Kings 11:6
“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
— 1 Kings 12:4
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
— 1 Kings 12:14
“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
— 1 Kings 13:12
And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
— 1 Kings 15:3