'Forefathers' in the Bible

Just as He promised to our fathers,To Abraham and to his descendants forever.”

To show mercy [as He promised] to our fathers,And to remember His holy covenant [the promised blessing],

Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for your reward in heaven is great [absolutely inexhaustible]; for their fathers used to treat the prophets in the same way.

Woe to you when all the people speak well of you and praise you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.

Alas for you! for you repair the tombs of the Prophets, whom your forefathers killed.

It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof. They slew, you build.