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TWOT Reference: 4a
father of an individual
of God as father of his people
head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan
ancestor
grandfather, forefathers — of person
of people
originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
of producer, generator (fig.)
of benevolence and protection (fig.)
term of respect and honour
ruler or chief (spec.)
Strong's Number H1 matches the Hebrew אָב ('āḇ),
which occurs 70 times in 59 verses in '2Ki'
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 1 / 2 (2Ki 2:12–2Ki 21:22)
As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ”
When he could see him no longer, he took hold of his own clothes, tore them in two,
He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.
However, Elisha said to King Joram of Israel, “What do we have in common? Go to the prophets of your father and your mother! ”
But the king of Israel replied, “No, because it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.”
Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head! ”
His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
But his servants approached and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more should you do it when he only tells you, ‘Wash and be clean’? ”
When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “Should I kill them, should I kill them, my father? ”
Jehoram rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember when you and I were riding side by side behind his father Ahab, and the LORD uttered this pronouncement against him:
Then his servants carried him to Jerusalem in a chariot and buried him in his ancestors’ tomb in the city of David.
select the most qualified[fn] of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.
Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz became king in his place.
So King Joash of Judah took all the items consecrated by himself and by his ancestors — Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah — as well as all the gold found in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
It was his servants Jozabad[fn] son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer who attacked him. He died and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.
Jehoahaz rested with his ancestors, and he was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoash[fn] became king in his place.
Jehoash rested with his ancestors, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
When Elisha became sick with the illness from which he died, King Jehoash of Israel went down and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ”
Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz took back from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the cities that Hazael had taken in war from Jehoash’s father Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad three times and recovered the cities of Israel.
He did what was right in the LORD’s sight, but not like his ancestor David. He did everything his father Joash had done.
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
However, he did not put the children of the killers to death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses where the LORD commanded, “Fathers are not to be put to death because of children, and children are not to be put to death because of fathers; instead, each one will be put to death for his own sin.”
Jehoash rested with his ancestors, and he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam became king in his place.
They carried him back on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
After Amaziah the king rested with his ancestors, Azariah rebuilt Elath[fn] and restored it to Judah.
Jeroboam rested with his ancestors, the kings of Israel. His son Zechariah became king in his place.
Azariah rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jotham became king in his place.
He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight as his predecessors had done. He did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz became king in his place.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God like his ancestor David
Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and his son Hezekiah became king in his place.
Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.”
But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like[fn] their ancestors who did not believe the LORD their God.
They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
They feared the LORD but also served their idols. Still today, their children and grandchildren continue doing as their ancestors did.
“Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them — nations such as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?
“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the LORD’s temple.
“‘Look, the days are coming when everything in your palace and all that your predecessors have stored up until today will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the LORD.
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.
“I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them — the whole law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
“because they have done what is evil in my sight and have angered me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’ ”
Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.
He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he bowed in worship to them.
1. 2Ki 2:12–2Ki 21:22
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