38 Bible Verses about grandfathers

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

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 Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the music-makers, who was over the business of the house of God.

For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.

Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah.

But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?

As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:

Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.

Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;