39 Bible Verses about grandfathers

Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

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 children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Do not move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

"'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

The LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

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

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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

He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

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

Notwithstanding 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 have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

The overseer also 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 singers, over the business of God's house.

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

David said to him, "Do not be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You shall eat bread at my table continually."

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity 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, neither you, nor your sons, forever:

Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'

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

He instructed 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 attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned.

"In those days they shall say no more, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; we have borne their iniquities.

Arpachshad became the father of Cainan, and Cainan became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.

"This is what the LORD says: '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 will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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

You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

Nevertheless for David's sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;