'Ancestors' in the Bible

Our ancestors trusted in you; they trusted and you delivered them.

Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.

God, we heard it with our ears; our ancestors told us about what you did in their day a long time ago.

With your hand you expelled the nations and established our ancestors. You afflicted nations and cast them out.

Your sons will take the place of your ancestors, and you will set them up as princes in all the earth.

you will end up like your ancestors' generation, never again to see the light of day!

things that we have heard and known and that our ancestors related to us.

He established a decree in Jacob, and established the Law in Israel, that he commanded our ancestors to reveal to their children

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

He performed marvelous things in the presence of their ancestors in the land of Egypt in the fields of Zoan.

They fell away and were as disloyal as their ancestors. They became unreliable, like a defective bow;

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

where your ancestors tested me. They tested me, even though they had seen my awesome deeds.

We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.

In Egypt, our ancestors neither comprehended your awesome deeds nor remembered your abundant gracious love. Instead, they rebelled beside the sea, the Reed Sea.

May his ancestors' guilt be remembered in the LORD's presence, and may his mother's guilt not be erased.