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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 112:2 OT

  His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

• Proverbs 11:21 OT

  Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

• Isaiah 65:23 OT

  They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

• Exodus 20:5 OT

  you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

• Isaiah 14:20 OT

  You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

• Lamentations 5:7 OT

  Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

• 1 Samuel 3:13 OT

  For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

• Jeremiah 9:14 OT

  but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

• 1 Peter 1:18 NT

  knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

• Ezekiel 20:18 OT

  I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

• Amos 2:4 OT

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers…

• Genesis 18:19 OT

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of…

• Genesis 44:20 OT

  We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

• Genesis 44:30 OT

  Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

• Genesis 48:13-20 OT

  Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him. Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was…

• Exodus 2:2 OT

  The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

• Exodus 2:3 OT

  When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

• Judges 13:8 OT

  Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”

• 1 Samuel 1:28 OT

  Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

• 2 Samuel 18:5 OT

  The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 18:33 OT

  The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Kings 4:19 OT

  He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

• 2 Kings 4:20 OT

  When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

• Proverbs 31:1 OT

  The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.