Quotes about Ancestors
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- Isaiah 37:12
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
- Jeremiah 11:7
“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
- Jeremiah 35:6
because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
- Jeremiah 44:3
“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
- Jeremiah 44:21
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
- Lamentations 5:7
“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
- Ezekiel 2:3
And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.
- Daniel 11:38
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
- Micah 7:20
the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,
- Zechariah 12:13
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
- Luke 11:47
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
- Acts 7:11