'Relatives' in the Bible
Now the Lord said to Abram,“Go forth from your country,And from your relativesAnd from your father’s house,To the land which I will show you;
but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
He said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;
then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’
They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.
But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”
Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’
But they said, “The man questioned particularly about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ So we answered his questions. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”
Moses called also to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come forward, carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.”
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.
except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,
or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
But he said to him, “I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives.”
Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother’s father, saying,
And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem; and they were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our relative.”
Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his relatives, and crossed over into Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
He sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem; and behold, they are stirring up the city against you.
Then Abimelech remained at Arumah, but Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives so that they could not remain in Shechem.
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she looks good to me.”
Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is our relative, he is one of our closest relatives.”
‘Thus says the Lord, “You must not go up and fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me.”’” So they listened to the word of the Lord, and returned and went their way according to the word of the Lord.
It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.
Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.”
Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.
Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. And they also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem opposite their other relatives.
From the sons of Zerah were Jeuel and their relatives, 690 of them.
and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers’ households according to their fathers’ houses.
and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
Now the gatekeepers were Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their relatives (Shallum the chief
Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of the Lord, keepers of the entrance.
Their relatives in their villages were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them;
Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath.
Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. And they also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem opposite their other relatives.
of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and 120 of his relatives;
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and 220 of his relatives;
of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and 130 of his relatives;
of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and 200 of his relatives;
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and 80 of his relatives;
of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 of his relatives.
and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.
Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah,
and with them their relatives of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.
Then on that day David first assigned Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the Lord.
So he left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
and Obed-edom with his 68 relatives; Obed-edom, also the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah as gatekeepers.
He left Zadok the priest and his relatives the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place which was at Gibeon,
Thus they are to keep charge of the tent of meeting, and charge of the holy place, and charge of the sons of Aaron their relatives, for the service of the house of the Lord.
These also cast lots just as their relatives the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites—the head of fathers’ households as well as those of his younger brother.
Their number who were trained in singing to the Lord, with their relatives, all who were skillful, was 288.
Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph, the second for Gedaliah, he with his relatives and sons were twelve;
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;
for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his relatives, twelve.
All these were of the sons of Obed-edom; they and their sons and their relatives were able men with strength for the service, 62 from Obed-edom.
Meshelemiah had sons and relatives, 18 valiant men.
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and relatives of Hosah were 13.
To these divisions of the gatekeepers, the chief men, were given duties like their relatives to minister in the house of the Lord.
The Levites, their relatives, had charge of the treasures of the house of God and of the treasures of the dedicated gifts.
His relatives by Eliezer were Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zichri his son and Shelomoth his son.
This Shelomoth and his relatives had charge of all the treasures of the dedicated gifts which King David and the heads of the fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had dedicated.
And all that Samuel the seer had dedicated and Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah, everyone who had dedicated anything, all of this was in the care of Shelomoth and his relatives.
As for the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 capable men, had charge of the affairs of Israel west of the Jordan, for all the work of the Lord and the service of the king.
and his relatives, capable men, were 2,700 in number, heads of fathers’ households. And King David made them overseers of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites concerning all the affairs of God and of the king.
‘Thus says the Lord, “You shall not go up or fight against your relatives; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me.”’” So they listened to the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.
“My relatives have failed,And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
“But I have stripped Esau bare,I have uncovered his hiding placesSo that he will not be able to conceal himself;His offspring has been destroyed along with his relativesAnd his neighbors, and he is no more.
“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the Lord; this land has been given us as a possession.’
Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”
Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had displayed His great mercy toward her; and they were rejoicing with her.
And they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.”
but supposed Him to be in the caravan, and went a day’s journey; and they began looking for Him among their relatives and acquaintances.
And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.
But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,
and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’
Then Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.