39 Bible Verses about grandfathers

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers; in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me.

And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee."

"What mean ye by this common proverb, that ye use in the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

There was a man of Ramathaimzophim of mount Ephraim, named Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

And Amram took Jochebed his niece to wife which bare him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived a hundred and thirty seven years.

And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day;

and say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers died all things continue in the same estate wherein they were at the beginning."

Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it, because of David thy father: but I will take it from thy son.

"Behold, I have called by name, Bezalel the son of Uri son to Hur of the tribe of Judah.

Yea, and the LORD stood upon it and said, "I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which thou sleepest upon will I give thee and thy seed.

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 children of Asaph, there were singers about the business in the house of God:

For all my father's house were but dead men unto my lord the king: and yet didst thou put me among them that eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet, to cry any more unto the king?"

Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

And David said, "Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan's sake and will restore thee all the fields of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat meat on mine own table always."

Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

For he was yet in the loins of his father Abraham, when Melchizedek met him.

Then was Daniel brought before the king. So the king spake unto Daniel, and said, "Art thou that Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah whom my father the king brought out of Jewry?

But they said, "We drink no wine, for Jonadab the

And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.'

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's privities, and told his two brethren that were without.

And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Let thine ears mark and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray now before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy servants, and knowledge the sins of the children of Israel, which we have committed against thee. And I and my father's house have sinned also.

Then shall it no more be said, 'The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.

And Arpachshad begat Shelah and Shelah begat Eber.

Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Behold, I will stir up evil against thee even of thine own house and will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, which shall sleep with them in the sight of the sun.

Your father Abraham was glad to see my day, and he saw it and rejoiced."

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Then said David, "Is there yet any man left of the house of Saul, that I may show him mercy for Jonathan's sake?"

O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor:

After Abimelech there arose, to defend Israel, one Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, which dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

Come therefore, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father."

They shall come into the city, and run upon the walls; They shall climb up upon the houses, and slip in at the windows like a thief.

Nevertheless, for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a light in Jerusalem; that he set up his son after him to continue Jerusalem,