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1 Kings 3:22“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.1 Kings 3:23Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”1 Kings 3:24The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,1 Kings 3:25and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”1 Kings 3:26Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”1 Kings 3:27Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”1 Kings 3:28When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.1 Chronicles 17:16Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?1 Chronicles 17:17And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God.1 Chronicles 17:18What more can David say to You for honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,1 Chronicles 17:19O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and made known all these great promises.1 Chronicles 17:20O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.1 Chronicles 17:21And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.1 Chronicles 17:22For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.1 Chronicles 17:23And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised,1 Chronicles 17:24so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.1 Chronicles 17:25For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.1 Chronicles 17:26And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant.1 Chronicles 17:27So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.”1 Chronicles 22:12Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.1 Chronicles 29:19And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.Psalm 78:5For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,Psalm 78:6that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own childrenPsalm 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.Psalm 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—Proverbs 3:12for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.Proverbs 13:24He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.Proverbs 23:14Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.Proverbs 27:11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.Proverbs 29:15A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.Proverbs 29:17Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.Proverbs 31:28Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!Isaiah 66:13As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”Jeremiah 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”Jeremiah 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”Jeremiah 49:11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”Lamentations 5:7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.Malachi 4:6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;Matthew 12:46While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.Mark 5:23and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”Mark 9:24Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”Luke 2:48When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”Luke 11:11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?Luke 11:12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?Luke 11:13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”John 4:49“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”John 19:25Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.2 Corinthians 12:14See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.Ephesians 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.