'Descendants' in the Bible
saying, "Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and {father} descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died [after] getting married, and [because he] did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother.
Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone's brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.
There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And [when he] died, he did not leave descendants.
And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise.
And the seven did not leave descendants. Last of all the woman also died.
just as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants {forever}."
saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.
Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"
I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.
Therefore, [because he] was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat {one of his descendants} on his throne,
And he did not give him an inheritance in it--not even a footstep--and he promised to give [it] to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, {although he did not have} a child.
But God spoke like this: 'His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat [them] four hundred years,
In his humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his {descendants}? For his life was taken away from the earth."
From the descendants of this man, according to [his] promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, [that] he would be heir of the world, [was] not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith.
Because of this, [it is] by faith, in order that [it may be] according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."
nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."
That is, [it is] not the children {by human descent} [who are] children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
And just as Isaiah foretold, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have resembled Gomorrah."
Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Are they Hebrews? I [am] also! Are they Israelites? I [am] also! Are they descendants of Abraham? I [am] also!
Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, "and to descendants," as concerning many, but as concerning one, "and to your descendant," who is Christ.
And if you [are] Christ's, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.
For surely he is not concerned with angels, but he is concerned with the descendants of Abraham.
with reference to whom it was said, "In Isaac your descendants will be named,"