Verse 19

They answered him: Holde thy peace, and laye thine hande vpon thy mouth, and go with vs, yt thou mayest be oure father & prest. Is it better for the to be prest in one mans house, then amonge a whole trybe & kynred in Israel?

Referenced Verses

• Judg 17:10 : 10 Micha sayde vnto him: Tary with me, thou shalt be my father and my prest, I will geue the euery yeare ten syluerlinges and thy appoynted raymet, and meate and drynke: and the Leuite wete on.
• Job 21:5 : 5 Marck me well, be aba?shed, and laye youre hade vpon youre mouth.
• Job 29:9 : 9 whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth:
• Mic 7:16 : 16 This shal the Heithen se, and be a?shamed for all their power: so that they shal laye their honde vpon their mouth, and stoppe their eares.
• Prov 30:32 : 32 Yf thou be so foolish to magnifie yi self, or medlest wt eny soch thinge, the laye thine hade vpon yi mouth.
• Matt 23:9 : 9 And call no man father vpon earth, for one is youre father, which is in heaue.
• Job 40:4-5 : 4 Beholde, I am to vyle a personne, to answere the, therfore will I laye my hande vpon my mouth. 5 Once or twyse haue I spoken, but I will saye nomore.
• 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 And whan the kynge of Israel sawe them, he saide vnto Eliseus: My father, shal I smyte the?
• 2 Kgs 8:8-9 : 8 Then sayde the kynge vnto Hasael: Take giftes with the, & go mete the man of God, and axe councell at ye LORDE by him, and saye: Maye I recouer from this sicknesse? 9 Hasael wente for to mete him, and toke rewardes with him, and of all the goodes at Damasco, as moch as fortye Camels mighte beare. And whan he came, he stode before him, and sayde: Thy sonne Benadab the kynge of Syria hath sent me vnto the, sayenge: Maye I recouer from this siknes?
• 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 As for Eliseus, he fell in to a sicknes, wherof he dyed. And Ioas the kynge of Israel came downe vnto him, and wepte for him, and saide: My father, my father, the charetman of Israel, and his horsmen.