39 Bible Verses about grandfathers

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Do not remove the old landmark which your fathers have set.

If they shall confess their wilfulness and the wilfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me,

And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers, and to your kindred, and I will be with you.

What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?

And there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim from the hills of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.

And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, for his wife. And she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

And he blessed Joseph and said, May God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who fed me all my life to this day,

and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

But I will not do it in your days, for David your father's sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Behold, I, I have called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

And behold! Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac! The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed.

And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. And you set your servant among those eating at your own table. What right then have I to cry to the king any more?

And you shall go to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried in a good old age.

And David said to him, Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father. And you shall eat bread at my table forever.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of the young.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel who is of the exiled sons of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

But they said, We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, you nor your sons forever.

And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you:

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

And he charged them and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

let Your ear now be open, and Your eyes open, so that You may hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now, day and night, for the sons of Israel Your servants, and confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both I and my father's house have sinned.

In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.

And Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

So says Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor. And he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and He saw and was glad.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

And David said, Is there still any that is left from the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar. And he lived in Shamir in Mount Ephraim.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father.

They shall rush on the city; they shall run on the wall; they shall climb up on the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

But for David's sake Jehovah his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,