Fondare 1271 Risultati per: Honor Father And Mother
Thy father, they said, made us bear a bitter yoke. That cruel sway of his, that hard yoke, do thou mitigate, and we will be thy servants on that condition. (1 Kings 12, 4)
king Roboam asked advice first of the older men that had been courtiers in the life-time of his father, king Solomon; what answer should he make to the people? (1 Kings 12, 6)
How think you, he asked, I should make answer to the people’s request, that I would lighten the yoke my father laid on them? (1 Kings 12, 9)
And these, men of his own upbringing, gave him advice in their turn. Do they complain that thy father laid a heavy yoke on them, and ask for relief? Then tell them there is more strength in thy little finger than in all the breadth of thy father’s back; (1 Kings 12, 10)
if his yoke fell heavy on them, thine shall be heavier still; if thy father’s weapon was the lash, thine shall be the scorpion.✻ (1 Kings 12, 11)
with such words as the younger men had prescribed to him. If my father’s yoke fell heavy on you, he told them, mine shall be heavier still; if his weapon was the lash, mine shall be the scorpion. (1 Kings 12, 14)
Whereupon their father asked what road he had taken, this prophet from Juda; and when he had found out this from his sons, (1 Kings 13, 12)
Meanwhile king Solomon’s son Roboam was reigning in Juda. He was forty-one years old when he came to the throne, and for seventeen years he reigned as king at Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the cities of Israel to be the sanctuary of his name. His mother was an Ammonitess called Naama. (1 Kings 14, 21)
reigned three years at Jerusalem. (His mother was called Maacha, daughter of Abessalom.✻ ) (1 Kings 15, 2)
Everywhere he followed the sinful example his father had set him, unworthy heir of David, that ever kept faith with the Lord his God. (1 Kings 15, 3)
His mother was called Maacha, daughter of Abessalom. (1 Kings 15, 10)
He even deprived his mother Maacha of her queenly rank, for her worship of Priapus and for dedicating a forest shrine to him; the grotto she had made he overthrew, broke the image and burnt the fragments of it and cast the ashes into the river Cedron. (1 Kings 15, 13)
