Bible Verses About Generational History

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.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

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

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

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:

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

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.

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

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

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

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

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

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.

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

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

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

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.

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 these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

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

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.

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,