'Family' in the Bible
When he showed them the way into the town, they put the town to the sword but released the man and his entire family.
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.
He said to Him, “Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Look, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
“Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have rewarded him appropriately for what he did—
There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoah; his wife was unable to conceive and had no children.
Then his brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. So he judged Israel 20 years.
They told him, “Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
The Danites said to him, “Don’t raise your voice against us, or angry men will attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”
At that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and family. Each returned from there to his own inheritance.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Brotherhood (11 instances)
- Category (1 instance)
- Class (20 instances)
- Family (608 instances)
- Fellowship (147 instances)
- Folk (8 instances)
- Fraternity (1 instance)
- Home (454 instances)
- Horde (14 instances)
- House (2166 instances)
- Household (360 instances)
- Kin (16 instances)
- Kind (424 instances)
- Kinsfolk (8 instances)
- Mob (15 instances)
- Posterity (55 instances)
- Related (94 instances)
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- Abraham, Family And Descendants
- Authority Within The Family, Kinds Of
- Being A Part Of The Family Of God
- Christ's Earthly Family
- Christ's True Family
- Curbing Speech
- Death Of A Family Member
- Family
- Family And Friends