Torrey's Topical Index

Patriarchal Government

Vested in the heads of families—Ge 18:19

EXERCISED IN

Training, &c their servants for war
—Ge 14:14
Vindicating their wrongs
—Ge 14:12,15,16
Forming treaties and alliances
—Ge 14:13; 21:22-32; 26:28-33
Acting as priests
—Ge 8:20; 12:7,8; 35:1-7; Job 1:5
Acting as judges
—Ge 38:24
Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and
children—Ge 21:14; 1Ch 5:1
Blessing and cursing their children
—Ge 9:25,26; 27:28,29; 49:1-33
The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged
—Ge 23:6
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