Bible Verses About Ancestry Research

And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

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

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

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

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

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

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

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

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.

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;

And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

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

O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin 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.

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

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

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

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