Quotes about Ancestry
Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,
- Nehemiah 12:10
Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.
- Nehemiah 12:11
of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jonathan;
- Nehemiah 12:18
Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
- Esther 2:10
Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
- Job 8:8
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
- Job 18:19
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
- Psalm 49:19
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
- Psalm 109:13
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
- Proverbs 22:28
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
- Isaiah 45:10
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- Isaiah 51:2
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- Jeremiah 9:14