39 Bible Verses about grandfathers

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is 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 children's children: but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

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

What mean you, 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 Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

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

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who fed me all my life long unto 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 the creation.

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

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

And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your descendants;

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, were over the business of the house of God.

For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet did you set your servant among them that did eat at your own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

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

And David said unto him, Fear not: 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 continually.

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

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

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

Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spoke and said unto Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who is 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:

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said unto me, Return unto 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 brethren outside.

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto 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 hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I and my father's house have sinned.

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

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

And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

Thus says the LORD, 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 unto 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 it, and was glad.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not 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 yet any that is left of 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 deliver Israel Tola the son of Puah the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

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

They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

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