Bible Verses About Cultural Heritage

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

He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

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:

Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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.

And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.

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

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

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.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

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

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:

So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

Which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;

And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

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.

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.