'Descent' in the Bible

The men of Ai struck down about 36 of them and chased them from outside the gate to the quarries, striking them down on the descent. As a result, the people’s hearts melted and became like water.

As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.

And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come [out of Judah] and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

Then the Lord stirred up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of royal descent in Edom.

And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash in the house of Millo, at the descent of Silla.

Now these are the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not provide evidence of their fathers’ households and their descendants, whether they were of Israel:

And these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon and Immer; but they [had no birth records and] could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they were of Israel:

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the guilt of their fathers.

A priest of Aaronic descent must accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites must take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.

When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."

And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, [with] a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones of hail.

For on the Ascent to Luhiththey will be weeping continually,and on the descent to Horonaimwill be heard cries of distress over the destruction:

Later, the king ordered Ashpenaz, his chief officer, to bring in some Israelis of royal and noble descent.

At that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought [malicious] accusations against the Jews.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—

And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David,

For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

And we, [believing] brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children [not merely of physical descent, like Ishmael, but are children born] of promise [born miraculously].

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,