Bible Verses About Sons-in-law

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.

Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.