Quotes about Relationships

And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

And Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.