Haller's Concordance: FATHERS
- And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. Gen. 15:15
- Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. Gen. 31:3
- You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination. Gen. 46:34
- And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We, thy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers. Gen. 47:3
- He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers. Gen. 47:9
- But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded. Gen. 47:30
- And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until this day: Gen. 48:15
- The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth. Gen. 48:16
- And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers. Gen. 48:21
- The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come: may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren. Gen. 49:26
- And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite, Gen. 49:29
- Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall say to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them? Ex. 3:13
- And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. Ex. 3:15
- Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt. Ex. 3:16
- That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to thee. Ex. 4:5
- And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants, and of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen, nor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth, until this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from Pharao. Ex. 10:6
- And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month. Ex. 13:5
- And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee: Ex. 13:11
- Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: Ex. 20:5
- Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation. Ex. 34:7
- And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers. Lev. 25:41
- And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own. Lev. 26:39
- And the children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by the families and houses of their fathers. Num. 2:34
- Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward. Num. 3:15
- Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and houses of their fathers, Num. 4:29
- So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers, Num. 4:34
- The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, Num. 4:38
- The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, Num. 4:42
- All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses of their fathers, Num. 4:46
- Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers? Num. 11:12
- The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Num. 14:18
- Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it. Num. 14:23
- Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert, Num. 14:33
- In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. Num. 20:15
- Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land? Num. 32:8
- And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel. Num. 32:14
- Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them. Dt. 1:8
- (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.) Dt. 1:11
- See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged. Dt. 1:21
- Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers: Dt. 1:35
- ¤ And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you. Dt. 4:1
- Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers. Dt. 4:31
- Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power, Dt. 4:37
- He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now present and living. Dt. 5:3
- Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me, Dt. 5:9
- Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey. Dt. 6:3
- And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, Dt. 6:10
- And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers, Dt. 6:18
- And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers. Dt. 6:23
- But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt. Dt. 7:8
- If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers: Dt. 7:12
- And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee. Dt. 7:13
- ¤ All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers. Dt. 8:1
- He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. Dt. 8:3
- And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee, Dt. 8:16
- But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth. Dt. 8:18
- For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Dt. 9:5
- And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would give them. Dt. 10:11
- And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved. Dt. 10:15
- In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven. Dt. 10:22
- And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey. Dt. 11:9
- That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth. Dt. 11:21
- ¤ These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth. Dt. 12:1
- If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers, Dt. 13:6
- And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers, Dt. 13:17
- He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers. Dt. 18:8
- And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he swore to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised them, Dt. 19:8
- The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin, Dt. 24:16
- And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come into the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it us. Dt. 26:3
- And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress: Dt. 26:7
- Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. Dt. 26:15
- That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as he swore to thy fathers. Dt. 27:3
- The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee. Dt. 28:11
- The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone. Dt. 28:36
- The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone. Dt. 28:64
- That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Dt. 29:13
- And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt: Dt. 29:25
- And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers. Dt. 30:5
- And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers: Dt. 30:9
- And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them. Dt. 30:20
- And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot. Dt. 31:7
- And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, Dt. 31:16
- For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant. Dt. 31:20
- They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not. Dt. 32:17
- Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them. Josu. 1:6
- And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones? Josu. 4:21
- The children of these succeeded in the place of their fathers, and were circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as they were born, and no one had circumcised them in the way. Josu. 5:7
- And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you? Josu. 18:3
- And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it. Josu. 21:43
- And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you. Josu. 22:28
- And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods. Josu. 24:2
- And I brought you and your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea: and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen, as far as the Red Sea. Josu. 24:6
- Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. Josu. 24:14
- But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord, Josu. 24:15
- The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among all the people through whom we passed. Josu. 24:17
- ¤ And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever: Judg. 2:1
- And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel. Judg. 2:10
- And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger, Judg. 2:12
- Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary. Judg. 2:17
- But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them, and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk. Judg. 2:19
- And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice: Judg. 2:20
- That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not. Judg. 2:22
- And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers, by the hand of Moses, or not. Judg. 3:4
- And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Madian. Judg. 6:13
- And when every one had seen this, they all cried out: There was never such a thing done in Israel, from the day that our fathers came up out of Egypt, until this day: give sentence, and decree in common what ought to be done. Judg. 19:30
- And when their fathers and their brethren shall come, and shall begin to complain against you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have pity on them: for they took them not away as by the right of war or conquest, but when they asked to have them, you gave them not, and the fault was committed on your part. Judg. 21:22
- And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord who made Moses and Aaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt. 1 Ki. 12:6
- Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead in judgment against you before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he hath shewn to you, and to your fathers: 1 Ki. 12:7
- How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord: and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. 1 Ki. 12:8
- But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and upon your fathers. 1 Ki. 12:15
- And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 2 Ki. 7:12
- Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be counted offenders. 3 Ki. 1:21
- So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 3 Ki. 2:10
- And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 3 Ki. 8:21
- Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their fathers. 3 Ki. 8:34
- That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers. 3 Ki. 8:40
- And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built to thy name: 3 Ki. 8:48
- For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from amongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God. 3 Ki. 8:53
- The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us off: 3 Ki. 8:57
- But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. 3 Ki. 8:58
- And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil. 3 Ki. 9:9
- And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my own country. 3 Ki. 11:21
- And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 11:43
- And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place wherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink water, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy fathers. 3 Ki. 13:22
- And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord. 3 Ki. 14:15
- And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 14:20
- And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed. 3 Ki. 14:22
- And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 14:31
- And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 15:8
- And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. 3 Ki. 15:12
- And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place. 3 Ki. 15:24
- So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 16:6
- And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Achab, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 16:28
- And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers. 3 Ki. 19:4
- Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers. 3 Ki. 21:3
- And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread. 3 Ki. 21:4
- So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 22:40
- And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 22:50
- And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 8:24
- And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to Jerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the city of David. 4 Ki. 9:28
- And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 10:35
- Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem. 4 Ki. 12:18
- For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer his servant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 12:21
- And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joas, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 13:9
- And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne. But Joas was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel. 4 Ki. 13:13
- But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin. 4 Ki. 14:6
- And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 14:16
- And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David. 4 Ki. 14:20
- He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers. 4 Ki. 14:22
- And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and Zacharias, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 14:29
- And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 15:7
- And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. 4 Ki. 15:9
- And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 15:22
- And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, his father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 15:38
- And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 16:20
- And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets. 4 Ki. 17:13
- And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God. 4 Ki. 17:14
- And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did. 4 Ki. 17:15
- So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also their idols: their children also, and grandchildren, as their fathers did, so do they unto this day. 4 Ki. 17:41
- Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thelassar? 4 Ki. 19:12
- Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. 4 Ki. 20:17
- And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 20:21
- And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them. 4 Ki. 21:8
- Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day. 4 Ki. 21:15
- And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in his stead. 4 Ki. 21:18
- And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord. 4 Ki. 21:22
- Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Juda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us. 4 Ki. 22:13
- Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the evils which I will bring upon this place. 4 Ki. 22:20
- And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. 4 Ki. 23:32
- And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers had done. 4 Ki. 23:37
- But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers: 4 Ki. 24:5
- But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 1 Par. 5:25
- These were the chief fathers, and heads of their families who dwelt in Jerusalem. 1 Par. 8:28
- And their brethren by their families, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these were heads of their families, by the houses of their fathers. 1 Par. 9:9
- And David went out to meet them, and said: If you are come peaceably to me to help me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you plot against me for my enemies whereas I have no iniquity in my hands, let the God of our fathers see, and judge. 1 Par. 12:17
- And when thou shalt have ended thy days to go to thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons: and I will establish his kingdom. 1 Par. 17:11
- For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay. 1 Par. 29:15
- O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel our fathers, keep for ever this will of their heart, and let this mind remain always for the worship of thee. 1 Par. 29:18
- And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and they bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king. 1 Par. 29:20
- Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and their fathers. 2 Par. 6:25
- That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers. 2 Par. 6:31
- And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore thee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers, and of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name: 2 Par. 6:38
- And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them. 2 Par. 7:22
- And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of David: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 9:31
- Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their heart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to sacrifice their victims before the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 11:16
- And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And Abia his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 12:16
- Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you. 2 Par. 13:12
- And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 13:18
- ¤ And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land was quiet ten years. 2 Par. 14:1
- And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments. 2 Par. 14:4
- And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building. 2 Par. 14:7
- And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul. 2 Par. 15:12
- And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. 2 Par. 16:13
- But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers. 2 Par. 19:3
- And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the people from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 19:4
- And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee. 2 Par. 20:6
- But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not yet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 20:33
- ¤ And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 21:1
- However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda unto this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his hand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers. 2 Par. 21:10
- And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin. 2 Par. 24:18
- And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments. 2 Par. 24:24
- But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. 2 Par. 25:4
- And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of David. 2 Par. 25:28
- He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers. 2 Par. 26:2
- And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the field of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 26:23
- And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 27:9
- For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 28:6
- At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven. 2 Par. 28:9
- And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn frankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath. 2 Par. 28:25
- And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 28:27
- And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary. 2 Par. 29:5
- Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs. 2 Par. 29:6
- Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness. 2 Par. 29:9
- Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the Lord the God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to destruction, as you see. 2 Par. 30:7
- Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: serve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his indignation shall be turned away from you. 2 Par. 30:8
- To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God of their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not sanctified. 2 Par. 30:19
- And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 30:22
- Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of the lands? have the gods of any nations and lands been able to deliver their country out of my hand? 2 Par. 32:13
- Who is there among all the gods of the nations, which my fathers have destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of this hand? 2 Par. 32:14
- Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand. 2 Par. 32:15
- And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him above the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated his funeral: and Manasses his son reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 32:33
- And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the land which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take heed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the ceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses. 2 Par. 33:8
- And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. 2 Par. 33:12
- And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house: and his son Amon reigned in his stead. 2 Par. 33:20
- Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel, and Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers have not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written in this book. 2 Par. 34:21
- For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be brought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They therefore reported to the king all that she had said. 2 Par. 34:28
- And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to do the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 34:32
- And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the countries of the children of Israel and made all that were left in Israel, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed not from the Lord the God of their fathers. 2 Par. 34:33
- And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him, 2 Par. 35:24
- And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. 2 Par. 36:15
- Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem. 1 Esd. 1:5
- And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, and Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers and their seed, whether they were of Israel. 1 Esd. 2:59
- And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place. 1 Esd. 2:68
- But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice. 1 Esd. 3:12
- And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said to them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold we have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria, who brought us hither. 1 Esd. 4:2
- But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as Cyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us. 1 Esd. 4:3
- That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy fathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and provinces, and that wars were raised therein of old time: for which cause also the city was destroyed. 1 Esd. 4:15
- But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the people to Babylon. 1 Esd. 5:12
- Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, 1 Esd. 7:27
- And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the Lord the God of our fathers. 1 Esd. 8:28
- From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day. 1 Esd. 9:7
- And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives. 1 Esd. 10:11
- And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest, and the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and all by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 1 Esd. 10:16
- And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire? 2 Esd. 2:3
- And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel. 2 Esd. 7:61
- And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 2 Esd. 9:2
- And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea. 2 Esd. 9:9
- But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. 2 Esd. 9:16
- And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it. 2 Esd. 9:23
- Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day. 2 Esd. 9:32
- Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them. 2 Esd. 9:34
- Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it. 2 Esd. 9:36
- And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the people for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the house of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year to year: to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law of Moses: 2 Esd. 10:34
- And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers: two hundred forty-two. And Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of Mosollamoth, the son of Emmer, 2 Esd. 11:13
- Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all this evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel by violating the sabbath. 2 Esd. 13:18
- She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee. Tob. 3:13
- And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee. Tob. 8:7
- They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans. Jud. 5:7
- Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which consisted in the worship of many gods, Jud. 5:8
- Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction. Jud. 6:17
- We call to witness this day heaven and earth, and the God of our fathers, who taketh vengeance upon us according to our sins, conjuring you to deliver now the city into the hand of the army of Holofernes, that our end may be short by the edge of the sword, which is made longer by the drought of thirst. Jud. 7:17
- We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity: Jud. 7:19
- For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and the heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and was buried there with his fathers. Jud. 8:3
- For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped strange gods. Jud. 8:18
- And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly. Jud. 8:21
- But they asked her no question, only they let her pass, saying: The God of our fathers give thee grace, and may he strengthen all the counsel of thy heart with his power, that Jerusalem may glory in thee, and thy name may be in the number of the holy and just. Jud. 10:8
- I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised. Esther 14:5
- And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day. Esther 16:16
- For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: Job 8:8
- There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers. Job 15:10
- Wise men confess and hide not their fathers. Job 15:18
- ¤ But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: Job 30:1
- In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them. Ps. 22:4
- Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were. Ps. 39:12
- ¤ We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old. Ps. 44:1
- Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth. Ps. 45:16
- He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light. Ps. 49:19
- How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Ps. 78:3
- And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: Ps. 78:5
- That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. Ps. 78:8
- Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. Ps. 78:12
- And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. Ps. 78:57
- As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works. Ps. 95:9
- We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. Ps. 106:6
- Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea. Ps. 106:7
- May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Ps. 109:14
- Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered without judgment. Pr. 13:23
- Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers. Pr. 17:6
- Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set. Pr. 22:28
- ¤ God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word, Wis. 9:1
- For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage. Wis. 18:6
- For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers. Wis. 18:9
- And he overcame the disturbance, not by strength of body nor with force of arms, but with a word he subdued him that punished them, alleging the oath and covenant made with the fathers. Wis. 18:22
- For in the priestly robe which he wore, was the whole world: and in the four rows of the stones, the glory of the fathers was graven, and thy majesty was written upon the diadem of his head. Wis. 18:24
- Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: Sir. 8:11
- ¤ Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers in their generation. Sir. 44:1
- And Solomon had an end with his fathers. Sir. 47:26
- Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. Isa. 14:21
- Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar? Isa. 37:12
- Behold the days shall come that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord. Isa. 39:6
- And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him. Isa. 49:23
- The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins. Isa. 64:11
- Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom. Isa. 65:7
- Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Jer. 2:5
- In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave to your fathers. Jer. 3:18
- Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Jer. 3:24
- We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God. Jer. 3:25
- Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour and kinsman shall perish. Jer. 6:21
- I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore. Jer. 7:7
- I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo. Jer. 7:14
- The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger. Jer. 7:18
- For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices. Jer. 7:22
- From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, from day to day, rising up early and sending. Jer. 7:25
- And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers. Jer. 7:26
- But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them. Jer. 9:14
- And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed. Jer. 9:16
- Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice, and do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God: Jer. 11:4
- That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord. Jer. 11:5
- For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured them, and said: Hearken ye to my voice: Jer. 11:7
- They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers. Jer. 11:10
- And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them. Jer. 13:14
- We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. Jer. 14:20
- For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them: and concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land: Jer. 16:3
- Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and kept not my law. Jer. 16:11
- And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me. Jer. 16:12
- So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land which you know not, nor your fathers: and there you shall serve strange gods day and night, which shall not give you any rest. Jer. 16:13
- But, The Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel out of the land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast them out: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their fathers. Jer. 16:15
- O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them. Jer. 16:19
- And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. Jer. 17:22
- Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place : and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents. Jer. 19:4
- Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. Jer. 23:27
- Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence. Jer. 23:39
- And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and their fathers. Jer. 24:10
- When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever. Jer. 25:5
- For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. Jer. 30:3
- In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. Jer. 31:29
- Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord. Jer. 31:32
- Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name. Jer. 32:18
- And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey. Jer. 32:22
- But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken the word, saith the Lord. Jer. 34:5
- Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: Jer. 34:13
- At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear. Jer. 34:14
- And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way, and make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me. Jer. 35:15
- Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew. Jer. 44:3
- Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and the evils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem? Jer. 44:9
- They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set before you and your fathers. Jer. 44:10
- But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil. Jer. 44:17
- Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart? Jer. 44:21
- At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands, Jer. 47:3
- All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers. Jer. 50:7
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. Lam. 5:7
- To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers. Bar. 1:16
- From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going astray we turned away from hearing his voice. Bar. 1:19
- And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Bar. 1:20
- To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. Bar. 2:6
- For it is not for the justices of our fathers that we pour out our prayers, and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God: Bar. 2:19
- Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoulder, and your neck, and serve the king of Babylon: and you shall remain in the land which I have given to your fathers. Bar. 2:21
- And they hearkened not to thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: and thou hast made good thy words, which thou spokest by the hands of thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers should be removed out of their place: Bar. 2:24
- And they shall turn away themselves from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, that sinned against me. Bar. 2:33
- And I will bring them back again into the land which I promised with an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished. Bar. 2:34
- Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think upon thy hand, and upon thy name at this time: Bar. 3:5
- Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before thee. Bar. 3:7
- And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord our God. Bar. 3:8
- And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day. Ezec. 2:3
- Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind. Ezec. 5:10
- That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. Ezec. 18:2
- If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers. Ezec. 20:4
- And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols: Ezec. 20:18
- Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers. Ezec. 20:24
- Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blasphemed me, when they had despised and contemned me; Ezec. 20:27
- Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit fornication with their abominations. Ezec. 20:30
- As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 20:36
- And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers. Ezec. 20:42
- And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. Ezec. 36:28
- And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. Ezec. 37:25
- And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession. Ezec. 47:14
- To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king's discourse. Dan. 2:23
- Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever: Dan. A:3
- For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins. Dan. A:5
- Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers; and worthy to be praised, and glorified, and exalted above all for ever: and blessed is the holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all, in all ages. Dan. A:29
- And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers; and Cyrus, the Persian, received his kingdom. Dan. 13:65
- We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Dan. 9:6
- O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned. Dan. 9:8
- O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us. Dan. 9:16
- And he shall enter into rich and plentiful cities: and he shall do that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scatter their spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and shall forecast devices against the best fenced places: and this until a time. Dan. 11:24
- And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things. Dan. 11:37
- But he shall worship the god Maozim, in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price. Dan. 11:38
- I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved. Osee 9:10
- Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Joel 1:2
- Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked. Amso 2:4
- Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old. Mic. 7:20
- The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers. Zach. 1:2
- Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord. Zach. 1:4
- Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always? Zach. 1:5
- But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us. Zach. 1:6
- For thus saith the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to afflict you, when your fathers had provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord, Zach. 8:14
- Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers? Mal. 2:10
- For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we return? Mal. 3:7
- And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema. Mal. 4:6
- Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although all nations obey king Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the service of the law of his fathers, and consent to his commandments: 1 Ma. 2:19
- I and my sons, and my brethren will obey the law of our fathers. 1 Ma. 2:20
- Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers. 1 Ma. 2:50
- And call to remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have done in their generations: and you shall receive great glory, and an everlasting name. 1 Ma. 2:51
- And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers. 1 Ma. 2:69
- And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was buried by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all Israel mourned for him with great mourning. 1 Ma. 2:70
- Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharao pursued them with a great army. 1 Ma. 4:9
- And now let us cry to heaven, and the Lord will have mercy on us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this army before our face this day: 1 Ma. 4:10
- And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring them unto him. 1 Ma. 7:2
- And Jonathan and Simon took Judas, their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of their fathers, in the city of Modin. 1 Ma. 9:19
- And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom. 1 Ma. 10:55
- In the year one hundred and sixty-five, Demetrius, the son of Demetrius, came from Crete into the land of his fathers. 1 Ma. 10:67
- Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land: 1 Ma. 10:72
- And king Demetrius, seeing that the land was quiet before him, and nothing resisted him, sent away all his forces, every man to his own place, except the foreign army, which he had drawn together from the islands of the nations: so all the troops of his fathers hated him. 1 Ma. 11:38
- And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan, his brother, and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers. 1 Ma. 13:25
- Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate; and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war. 1 Ma. 15:3
- In the year one hundred and seventy-four, Antiochus entered into the land of his fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that few were left with Tryphon. 1 Ma. 15:10
- And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's, but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. 1 Ma. 15:33
- But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers. 1 Ma. 15:34
- For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that then were worshippers of God, took privately the fire from the altar, and hid it in a valley where there was a deep pit without water, and there they kept it safe, so that the place was unknown to all men. 2 Ma. 1:19
- Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers, and didst sanctify them: 2 Ma. 1:25
- And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best: 2 Ma. 4:15
- But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers. 2 Ma. 5:10
- ¤ But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: 2 Ma. 6:1
- And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew. 2 Ma. 6:6
- But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers. 2 Ma. 7:2
- Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things necessary. 2 Ma. 7:24
- But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is God. 2 Ma. 7:37
- And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that was invoked upon them. 2 Ma. 8:15
- Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the holy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had been shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the fathers. 2 Ma. 8:17
- Moreover, he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had received from God: and how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and eighty-five thousand had been destroyed. 2 Ma. 8:19
- And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers. 2 Ma. 12:39
- And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Mt. 23:30
- Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Mt. 23:32
- And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias: that he may turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children and the incredulous to the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a perfect people. Lk. 1:17
- As he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed for ever. Lk. 1:55
- To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy testament. Lk. 1:72
- Be glad in that day and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great in heaven, For according to these things did their fathers to the prophets. Lk. 6:23
- Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets. Lk. 6:26
- Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. Lk. 11:47
- Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres. Lk. 11:48
- Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. Jn. 4:20
- Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jn. 6:31
- Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead. Jn. 6:49
- This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever. Jn. 6:58
- Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. Jn. 7:22
- The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. Acts 3:13
- You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Acts 3:25
- The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to death, hanging him upon a tree. Acts 5:30
- Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan. Acts 7:2
- Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food. Acts 7:11
- But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first. Acts 7:12
- So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers. Acts 7:15
- This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive. Acts 7:19
- I am the God of thy fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified durst not behold. Acts 7:32
- This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received the words of life to give unto us. Acts 7:38
- Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt, Acts 7:39
- The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen. Acts 7:44
- Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David, Acts 7:45
- You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. Acts 7:51
- Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers. Acts 7:52
- The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence: Acts 13:17
- And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our fathers, Acts 13:32
- For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption. Acts 13:36
- Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? Acts 15:10
- ¤ Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give unto you. Acts 22:1
- And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day: Acts 22:3
- But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth. Acts 22:14
- And now for the hope of the promise that was made by God to the fathers, do I stand subject to judgment: Acts 26:6
- And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. Acts 28:17
- And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul speaking this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by Isaias the prophet, Acts 28:25
- Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen. Rom. 9:5
- As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers. Rom. 11:28
- For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: Rom. 15:8
- For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you. 1 Cor. 4:15
- ¤ For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. 1 Cor. 10:1
- And I made progress in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. Gal. 1:14
- And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. Eph. 6:4
- Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged. Col. 3:21
- Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1 Tim. 1:9
- ‡ ¤ God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all, Heb. 1:1
- Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, Heb. 3:9
- Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. Heb. 8:9
- Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live? Heb. 12:9
- Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: 1 Pet. 1:18
- Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 2 Pet. 3:4
- I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. 1 Jn. 2:13
- ‡ LORD omnipotent God of our fathers, Abraham, & Isaac, and Iacob, and of their iust sede, (2 Par 33:12) Man. 1:1
- according to the writing of Dauid king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Salomon his sonne, al in the temple, and according to your fathers portion of principalitie, among them that stand in the sight of your brethren the children of Isreal. 3 Esd. 1:5
- And according to the portions of their fathers principalitie, in the sight of the people they did offer, to our Lord according to those thinges, which were written in the booke of Moyses: 3 Esd. 1:11
- And he went vp into his second chariote: & comming to Ierusalem, dyed, and was buried in his fathers sepulchre. 3 Esd. 1:31
- And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to reclame them, for that he would spare them, and his tabernacle. 3 Esd. 1:50
- but to make it knowen to our Lord the king, that if it shal seme good, o king it may be sought in the bookes of thy fathers, 3 Esd. 2:21
- Blessed art thou which hast geuen me wisedom, and I wil confesse to thee Lord God of our fathers. 3 Esd. 4:60
- and they blessed the God of their fathers, because he gaue them remission and refreshing, 3 Esd. 4:62
- And because our fathers were prouoking to wrath, and sinned agaynst God of Israel, he deliuered them into the handes of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, king of the Chaldees. 3 Esd. 6:15
- And Esdras the scribe sayd: Blessed be the God of our fathers, which hath geuen this wil into the kings hart, to glorifie his house, which is in Ierusalem. 3 Esd. 8:28
- And I sayd to them: You are also sanctified to our Lord, and the vessels be holie, and the gold and siluer is vowed to our Lord the God of our fathers. 3 Esd. 8:59
- Because from the times of our fathers we are in great sinne vnto this day. 3 Esd. 8:77
- And for the sinnes of vs, and of our fathers we haue bene deliuered with our brethren, and with our Priestes to the kinges of the earth, into sword and captiuitie, and spoile with confusion vnto this present day. 3 Esd. 8:78
- And now geue confession, & magnificence to our Lord the God of our fathers: 3 Esd. 9:8
- And Esdras the priest chose vnto him men the great princes of their fathers according to their names: & they sate together in the newmoone of the tenth moneth to examine this busines. 3 Esd. 9:16
- For I meant not to aske of thy superiour thinges, but of those that passe by vs dayly. For what cause Israel is geuen into reproche to the gentiles, the people whom thou hast loued, is geuen to impious tribes, & the law of our fathers is brought to destruction, & the written ordinances are no where: 4 Esd. 4:23
- whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or brethren for brethren, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or friends for them that are most dear. 4 Esd. 7:103
- And I sayd: First Abraham prayed for the Sodomites, and Moyses for the fathers that sinned in the desert. (Gen. 18/ Ex. 32) 4 Esd. 7:106
- O Lord thou shewing thy selfe to vs, wast shewed to our fathers in the desert, which is not troden, and vnfruitful, when they came out of AEgypt: and saying thou saydst: (Ex. 19 & 24 / Deut. 4) 4 Esd. 9:29
- For our fathers receiuing the law obserued it not, and kept not my ordinances, and the fruite of the law did not appeare: for it could not, because it was thine. 4 Esd. 9:32
- Our fathers were pilgrimes from the beginning in AEgypt, and were deliuered from thence. (Gen. 47) 4 Esd. 14:29
- and the land was geuen you by lotte, and the land of Sion, and your fathers, and you haue done iniquitie, and haue not kept the wayes which the Highest commanded you. 4 Esd. 14:31