'Descendants' in the Bible

The total number of Perez’s descendants, who settled in Jerusalem, was 468 capable men.

These were Benjamin’s descendants: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,

The leader of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the descendants of Asaph, who were singers for the service of God’s house.

Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.

As for the farming settlements with their fields:Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;

Benjamin’s descendants:from Geba, Michmash, Aija,and Bethel—and its villages,

Levi’s descendants, the leaders of families, were recorded in the Book of the Historical Records during the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.

So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.

the Jews bound themselves, their descendants, and all who joined with them to a commitment that they would not fail to celebrate these two days each and every year according to the written instructions and according to the time appointed.

These days are remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim will not lose their significance in Jewish life and their memory will not fade from their descendants.

in order to confirm these days of Purim at their proper time just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and just as they had committed themselves and their descendants to the practices of fasting and lamentation.

You will also know that your offspring will be manyand your descendants like the grass of the earth.

He has no children or descendants among his people,no survivor where he used to live.

Their children are established while they are still alive,and their descendants, before their eyes.

Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword;his descendants will never have enough food.

He gives great victories to His king;He shows loyalty to His anointed,to David and his descendants forever.

You will wipe their descendants from the earthand their offspring from the human race.

You who fear Yahweh, praise Him!All you descendants of Jacob, honor Him!All you descendants of Israel, revere Him!

Their descendants will serve Him;the next generation will be told about the Lord.

He will live a good life,and his descendants will inherit the land.

The descendants of His servants will inherit it,and those who love His name will live in it.

With power You redeemed Your people,the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.Selah

You return mankind to the dust,saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”

you offspring of Abraham His servant,Jacob’s descendants—His chosen ones.

and would disperse their descendantsamong the nations,scattering them throughout the lands.

Let the line of his descendants be cut off;let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

His descendants will be powerful in the land;the generation of the upright will be blessed.

The Lord swore an oath to David,a promise He will not abandon:“I will set one of your descendantson your throne.

They will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

‘Some of your descendants who come from you will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Do not fear, for I am with you;I will bring your descendants from the east,and gather you from the west.

For I will pour water on the thirsty landand streams on the dry ground;I will pour out My Spirit on your descendantsand My blessing on your offspring.

I have not spoken in secret,somewhere in a land of darkness.I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:Seek Me in a wasteland.I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;I say what is right.

All the descendants of Israelwill be justified and find glory through the Lord.

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,and the offspring of your body like its grains;their name would not be cut offor eliminated from My presence.

For you will spread out to the right and to the left,and your descendants will dispossess nationsand inhabit the desolate cities.

Their descendants will be known among the nations,and their posterity among the peoples.All who see them will recognizethat they are a people the Lord has blessed.

I will produce descendants from Jacob,and heirs to My mountains from Judah;My chosen ones will possess it,and My servants will dwell there.

They will not labor without successor bear children destined for disaster,for they will be a people blessed by the Lordalong with their descendants.

I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot,a jar no one wants?Why are he and his descendants hurled outand cast into a land they have not known?

This is what the Lord says:Record this man as childless,a man who will not be successful in his lifetime.None of his descendants will succeedin sitting on the throne of Davidor ruling again in Judah.

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”

this is what the Lord says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people, nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to My people”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for he has preached rebellion against the Lord.”

As for you, My servant Jacob,do not be afraid—this is the Lord’s declaration—and do not be dismayed, Israel,for without fail I will save you from far away,your descendants, from the land of their captivity!Jacob will return and have calm and quietwith no one to frighten him.

If this fixed order departs from My presence—this is the Lord’s declaration—then also Israel’s descendants will ceaseto be a nation before Me forever.

This is what the Lord says:If the heavens above can be measuredand the foundations of the earth below explored,I will reject all of Israel’s descendantsbecause of all they have done—this is the Lord’s declaration.

I will give them one heart and one way so that for their good and for the good of their descendants after them, they will fear Me always.

The hosts of heaven cannot be counted; the sand of the sea cannot be measured. So, too, I will make the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister to Me innumerable.”

then I might also reject the seed of Jacob and of My servant David—not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.”

I will punish him, his descendants, and his officers for their wrongdoing. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the disaster, which I warned them about but they did not listen.”

But you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid,and do not be discouraged, Israel,for without fail I will save you from far awayand your descendants, from the land of their captivity!Jacob will return and have calm and quietwith no one to frighten him.

But I will strip Esau bare;I will uncover his secret places.He will try to hide himself, but he will be unable.His descendants will be destroyedalong with his relatives and neighbors.He will exist no longer.

Say to them: This is what the Lord God says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of Jacob’s house and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, saying: I am Yahweh your God.

When I vent My jealous rage on you, they will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and ears, and your descendants will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your descendants will be consumed by fire.

Among them, from the descendants of Judah, were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven, but not to his descendants; it will not be the same kingdom that he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and will go to others besides them.

“Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread animal waste over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices, and you will be taken away with it.

To the man who does this, may the Lord cut off any descendants from the tents of Jacob, even if they present an offering to the Lord of Hosts.

“Because I, Yahweh, have not changed, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

just as He spoke to our ancestors,to Abraham and his descendants forever.

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne.

He didn’t give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.

God spoke in this way:His descendants would be strangersin a foreign country,and they would enslaveand oppress them 400 years.

“From this man’s descendants, according to the promise, God brought the Savior, Jesus, to Israel.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.

Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.