Thematic Bible: Examples of Godly young men


Thematic Bible



They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.


Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah from Beersheba. Joash did what was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.



Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. He did right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images.





Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is a divine spirit?”

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.



Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli. And word from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.


Then Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth.”


They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.


And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”