Bible Verses About Ancestors

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

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

These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,