What do you think are the best gifts parents could give their children? Of course, as every parent would know, it is a good education (not a pressurizing one) and quality time spent with them...And there is one more thing which is the responsibility of every Christian parent to give their children as inheritance...that is, teaching them the fear of the Lord.
For we may not understand now, how the fear of the Lord would help them in every walk of their life, from childhood through their adult years...It is exactly what King Abhijah gave his son Asa, and Asa to his son Jehoshapat.
Here is the account of these 3 kings
2 Chronicles 13:17,18,21 (New American Standard Bible)
17a.Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter...18b....and the sons of Judah conquered because they trusted in the LORD, the God of their fathers. 21... Abijah became powerful.
2 Chronicles 14:1b-2, 19 (New International Version)
1b...Asa his (Abhijah's) son succeeded him as king, and in his days the country was at peace for ten years. 2Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God. 19 There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.
2 Chronicles 17:1,3-4 (New International Version)
1.Jehoshaphat his (Asa's) son succeeded him as king and strengthened himself against Israel.3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because in his early years he walked in the ways his father David had followed. He did not consult the Baals 4 but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel.5 The LORD established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor.
From the accounts of these kings, we see how the fear of the Lord was passed on as inheritance from Abhijah to Jehoshapat and the result ...Glorious!
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