From Nave’s Topical Bible
Mother
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 27Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningExodus 20:12Exodus 21:15Exodus 21:17Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 19:3Leviticus 20:9Deuteronomy 5:161 Kings 19:20Proverbs 1:8Proverbs 6:20Proverbs 10:1Proverbs 15:20Proverbs 19:26Proverbs 20:20Proverbs 23:22–25Proverbs 28:24Proverbs 29:15Proverbs 30:11Proverbs 30:17Matthew 10:37
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The passages, in Bible order (27)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Commentary on Exodus 20:122 voices
Honor thy father and thy mother - There is a degree of affectionate respect which is owing to parents, that no person else can properly claim. For a considerable time parents stand as it were in the place of God to their children, and therefore rebellion against their lawful commands has been considered as rebellion against God. This precept therefore prohibits, not only all injurious acts, irreverent and unkind speeches to parents, but enjoins all necessary acts of kindness, filial respect, and obedience.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
The formation of the children is then the prerogative of the parents. Therefore honor your father, that he may bless you. Let the godly man honor his father out of gratitude and the ingrate do so on account of fear. Even if the father is poor and does not have plenty of resources to leave to his sons, still he has the heritage of his final blessing with which he may bestow the wealth of sanctification on his descendants. And it is a far greater thing to be blessed than it is to be rich.
Ambrose of Milan· THE PATRIARCHS 1.1Patristic
- Exodus 21:15
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:17
Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 18:7
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
Commentary on Leviticus 18:71 voice
Or - It might be rendered “and”, or rather, even; that is, which belongs to both parents as being “one flesh” (Gen 2:24; compare Lev 18:8, Lev 18:14). These prohibitions are addressed to men.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Leviticus 19:3
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Commentary on Leviticus 19:31 voice
Compare Exo 20:8, Exo 20:12; Exo 31:13-14. The two laws repeated here are the only laws in the Decalogue which assume a positive shape, all the others being introduced by the formula, “Thou shalt not.” These express two great central points, the first belonging to natural law and the second to positive law, in the maintenance of the well-being of the social body of which Yahweh was the acknowledged king.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Leviticus 20:9
If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Commentary on Leviticus 20:91 voice
But when we wish to examine the very letter of the words as given by Matthew, "He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him die the death," consider whether it was taken from the place where it was written, "Whoso strikes his father or mother, let him die the death; and he that speaks evil of father or mother, let him die the death." For such are the exact words taken from the law with regard to the two commandments; but Matthew has quoted them in part and in an abridged form, and not in the very words.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 11.9Patristic
- Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- 1 Kings 19:20
So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
Commentary on 1 Kings 19:202 voices
Let me - kiss my father and my mother - Elisha fully understood that he was called by this ceremony to the prophetic office: and it is evident that he conferred not with flesh and blood, but resolved, immediately resolved, to obey; only he wished to bid farewell to his relatives. See below. What have I done to thee? - Thy call is not from me, but from God: to him, not to me, art thou accountable for thy use or abuse of it.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
After receiving the garment from the prophetical hand, at the same time you have received the privilege, when you were transformed from worker into a prophet through the radiance of the Spirit that was glorified. Since you foreknew, O Christ, the inclination to goodness Of …
John of Cressy· CANON 6, ON ELISHA THE PROPHET, ODE 1Patristic
- Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Commentary on Proverbs 1:81 voice
My son, hear - Father was the title of preceptor, and son, that of disciple or scholar, among the Jews. But here the reference appears to be to the children of a family; the father and the mother have the principal charge, in the first instance, of their children’s instruction. It is supposed that these parents have, themselves, the fear of the Lord, and that they are capable of giving the best counsel to their children, and that they set before them a strict example of all godly living.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Commentary on Proverbs 6:201 voice
Preserve, my son, the precepts of your father, etc. Now under the guise of the adulterous woman, he forbids listening to heresy.
Bede· Commentary on ProverbsPatristic
- Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
Commentary on Proverbs 10:11 voice
The proverbs of Solomon - Some ancient MSS. of the Vulgate have Proverbiorum liber secundus, “The second book of the Proverbs.” The preceding nine chapters can only be considered as an introduction, if indeed they may be said to make even a part, of the proverbs of Solomon, which appear to commence only at the tenth chapter.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Proverbs 15:20
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Commentary on Proverbs 15:202 voices
A wise son maketh a glad father,.... See Gill on Pro 10:1; but a foolish man despiseth his mother; that bore him and brought him up, and perhaps was too indulgent to him; which aggravates his sin and her sorrow; See Gill on Pro 10:1; or causes her to be despised by others, as Jarchi interprets it; such a man's sin, which is great folly, and shows him to be a foolish man, is highly resented by the Lord, and will be severely punished; see Pro 30:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
To “despise” a mother is to cause her the deepest grief, and is therefore not unfitly contrasted with “making a glad father.”
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Proverbs 19:26
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
Commentary on Proverbs 19:261 voice
He that wasteth his father - Destroys his substance by riotous or extravagant living, so as to embitter his latter end by poverty and affliction; and adds to this wickedness the expulsion of his aged widowed mother from the paternal house; is a son of shame - a most shameful man; and a son of reproach - one whose conduct cannot be sufficiently execrated. Who tormentith the fader, and fleeth the modir, schenful schal ben, and unblisful - Old MS. Bible.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Commentary on Proverbs 20:201 voice
Whoso curseth his father - Such persons were put to death under the law; see Exo 21:17; Lev 20:9, and here it is said, Their lamp shall be put out - they shall have no posterity; God shall cut them off both root and branch.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Proverbs 23:22–25
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:22–251 voice
Despise not thy mother when she is old - A very necessary caution, as very old women are generally helpless, useless, and burdensome: yet these circumstances do not at all lessen the child’s duty. And this duty is strengthened by the Divine command here given.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:241 voice
Whoso robbeth his father - The father’s property is as much his own, in reference to the child, as that of the merest stronger. He who robs his parents is worse than a common robber; to the act of dishonesty and rapine he adds ingratitude, cruelty, and disobedience. Such a person is the compatriot of a destroyer; he may be considered as a murderer.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
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