Bible Verses About Genealogical Studies

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

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

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

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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.

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:

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

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

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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.

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

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

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

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

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

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

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

Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,

And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

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.

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

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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 Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

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

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

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

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

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

Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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.

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,