In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

(23:1) ¹  A man may not marry ²  his father’s former ³  wife and in this way dishonor his father. ⁴ 

David was going back and forth ¹  from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

Saul retained David ¹  on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.

But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!

Look, our fathers died violently ¹  and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off ²  because of this.

Listen, children, ²  to a father’s instruction, ³  and pay attention so that ⁴  you may gain ⁵  discernment.

A wise son accepts ¹  his father’s discipline, ²  but a scoffer ³  does not listen to rebuke.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; ¹  whoever fathers a wise child ²  will have joy in him.

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ¹  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ² 

So ¹  the rich man ²  said, ‘Then I beg you, father – send Lazarus ³  to my father’s house

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, ¹  and you people ²  say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” ³ 

Fathers, ¹  do not provoke your children to anger, ²  but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. ¹  Indeed, ²  he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. ³ 

Now the Lord said ¹  to Abram, ²  “Go out ³  from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you. ⁴ 

What’s more, ¹  she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. ¹  “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up ¹  all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.