9 occurrences in 6 translations

'Successive' in the Bible

God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahGenerationsThe Eternal CovenantThe RainbowRainbowcovenant

“Say to Aaron, ‘Throughout their generations none of your descendants who has any [physical] defect shall approach [the altar] to present the food of his God.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot Times

only so that successive Israeli generations, who had not known war previously, might come to know it by experience.

Verse ConceptsReady For War

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family when he killed the Gibeonites.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfFamine, Examples OfFace Of GodGod's Activity In IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfThree YearsFound GuiltyFamily Problemssaul

He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.

Verse ConceptsHand Of God

Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end -- I am the one.

Verse Conceptseternity, nature ofGenerationsBeginningGod, The EternalHistoryOld Age, Attitudes ToGod, All knowingBeginning And Enda new beginningGod Being In Control

Now behold, I have made you today like a fortified city and like an iron pillar and like bronze walls against the whole land—against the [successive] kings of Judah, against its leaders, against its priests, and against the people of the land [giving you divine strength which no hostile power can overcome].

Verse ConceptsBronzeCityIronPillarsWallsBrassMetaphorical PillarsFigurative WallsThings Like BronzeThings Like IronKings of judahFamily Conflictpriests

“For the Ascent of LuhithWill be climbed by [successive groups of] fugitives with continual weeping;For on the descent of HoronaimThey have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysDecksstructure

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