Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "There is nothing left for us to inherit from our father.

He treats us like foreigners. He sold us, and now he has spent all the money he was paid for us.

Saul became furious with Jonathan and said to him, "How rebellious and faithless your mother was! Now I know you are taking sides with David and are disgracing yourself and that mother of yours!

"Why should he die?" Jonathan replied. "What has he done?"

Jonathan got up from the table in a rage and ate nothing that day---the second day of the New Moon Festival. He was deeply distressed about David, because Saul had insulted him.

Parents, do not irritate your children, or they will become discouraged.

I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised."

When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean?'

you will answer, 'It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the LORD, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.' " The Israelites knelt down and worshiped.

In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, 'By using great power the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves.

When the king of Egypt was stubborn and refused to let us go, the LORD killed every first-born male in the land of Egypt, both human and animal. That is why we sacrifice every first-born male animal to the LORD, but buy back our first-born sons.

Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

Teach them to your children. Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

"In times to come your children will ask you, 'Why did the LORD our God command us to obey all these laws?'

With our own eyes we saw him work miracles and do terrifying things to the Egyptians and to their king and to all his officials.

Then the LORD our God commanded us to obey all these laws and to honor him. If we do, he will always watch over our nation and keep it prosperous.

Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the LORD your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.

These stones will remind the people of what the LORD has done. In the future, when your children ask what these stones mean to you,

you will tell them that the water of the Jordan stopped flowing when the LORD's Covenant Box crossed the river. These stones will always remind the people of Israel of what happened here."

And he said to the people of Israel, "In the future, when your children ask you what these stones mean,

Tell them that the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan for you until you had crossed, just as he dried up the Red Sea for us.

If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD."

He will build a temple for me. He will be my son, and I will be his father. His dynasty will rule Israel forever.' "

And may the LORD your God give you insight and wisdom so that you may govern Israel according to his Law.

And to Solomon he said, "My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

You must realize that the LORD has chosen you to build his holy Temple. Now do it---and do it with determination."

King David said to his son Solomon, "Be confident and determined. Start the work and don't let anything stop you. The LORD God, whom I serve, will be with you. He will not abandon you, but he will stay with you until you finish the work to be done on his Temple.

Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations."

You have taught me ever since I was young, and I still tell of your wonderful acts.

Now that I am old and my hair is gray, do not abandon me, O God! Be with me while I proclaim your power and might to all generations to come.

We will not keep them from our children; we will tell the next generation about the LORD's power and his great deeds and the wonderful things he has done.

so that the next generation might learn them and in turn should tell their children.

My children, listen to what your father teaches you. Pay attention, and you will have understanding.

When I was only a little boy, my parents' only son,

Discipline your children while they are young enough to learn. If you don't, you are helping them destroy themselves.

Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.

Children just naturally do silly, careless things, but a good spanking will teach them how to behave.

Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them.

As a matter of fact, it may save their lives.

Correction and discipline are good for children. If they have their own way, they will make their mothers ashamed of them.

Discipline your children and you can always be proud of them. They will never give you reason to be ashamed.

It is the living who praise you, As I praise you now. Parents tell their children how faithful you are.

I remember the sincere faith you have, the kind of faith that your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice also had. I am sure that you have it also.

and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?

In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!