Bible Verses About Generational Lineage

Bible verses about Generational Lineage

12 verses

Discover what the Bible says about generational lineage.

Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.

Scripture Passages

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

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And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

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And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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

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

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

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And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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

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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.

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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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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.

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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.

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And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,

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Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

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

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

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And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

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And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

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And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;

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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:

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

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

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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

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And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

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And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;

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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.

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

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

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

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Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

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

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And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

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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,

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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,

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And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

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

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

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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

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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:

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And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

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