31 Bible Verses about Ancestors

For their well being, I will remember the promise to their ancestors. I brought them out of Egypt to be their God while nations looked on. I am Jehovah!'

Was Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

Jehovah continued: I will not withdraw punishment for the many transgressions of Judah. For they have rejected the Law of Jehovah! They have not kept his statutes. Their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He took his servant and went to Beersheba in Judah. He left the servant there. Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.

Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews. When they assembled, he said to them: My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh. He was the firstborn of Joseph. Machir was the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

The forefathers belong to them from whom came the Christ according to the flesh. God who is over all is blessed forever. Amen.

He was still in the loins of his ancestor (not yet born) when Melchizedek met him.

Say this, 'The Lord Jehovah says this to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.

Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us here alive today.

Now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.

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

Concerning the good news, they are enemies for your sakes. With reference to the chosen ones, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

I will remember my promise to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land.

None of the people twenty years old or older, who came from Egypt, will see the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with an oath. This is because they did not wholeheartedly follow me.

I have given you this land. Go in and possess the land Jehovah pledged to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants (offspring) after them.'

LOVE JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, OBEY HIM, AND BE LOYAL TO HIM. THIS WILL BE YOUR WAY OF LIFE. It will mean a long life for you in the land that Jehovah swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jehovah will confirm today with this promise that you are his people and that he is your God. This is what he told you. This is what he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with an oath.

He said: Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are people from a nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.

You claim that you would not have been involved with your fathers when they spilled the blood of the prophets.

Fill up the (guilt) measure of your fathers.

Blessed is the coming kingdom, the kingdom of our father David. Hosanna in the highest!

He shows mercy towards our fathers and remembers his holy covenant.

Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well. He and his children and cattle drank from it.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. But you say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness. It is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

This is the bread that came down out of heaven. It is not like the bread (manna) the fathers ate and then died. He who eats this bread will live forever.

Moses gave you circumcision. Not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers. And you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.