100 Bible Verses About Generations
Bible verses about Generations
Understanding generations through scripture reveals the tapestry of God's enduring love and faithfulness woven throughout history. Each generation inherits a legacy of faith, carrying forward the promises and lessons learned by those who came before. Studying these verses illuminates our interconnectedness, highlighting the responsibility we have to nurture and guide future generations in righteousness. We see God's overarching plan unfold across time, a plan that encompasses all peoples and all ages, inviting us to participate in His eternal purpose. By reflecting on these passages, we gain wisdom and perspective, enabling us to build a stronger spiritual foundation for ourselves and those who will follow.
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Joshua 19:37 (KJV)
And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En–hazor,
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And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar–haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s son, and Jonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
So the people rested on the seventh day.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do, so he shall do.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And Janum, and Beth–tappuah, and Aphekah,
Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En–hazor,
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord.
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs:
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion–gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.
And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord.
This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal–gad,
The Bible's verses on generations weave a powerful tapestry of continuity, responsibility, and legacy. From the blessings promised to Abraham's descendants to the consequences of generational sin, Scripture highlights the profound interconnectedness of past, present, and future. We see the importance of passing down faith, wisdom, and moral values to subsequent generations, ensuring the preservation of God's covenant and the perpetuation of righteousness. Conversely, we are warned of the potential for inherited patterns of sin and the need for each generation to actively choose God's path. As we reflect on these verses, let us consider the legacy we are creating. Are we building a foundation of faith for those who come after us? Are we actively working to break cycles of negativity and embrace God's promises for future generations? May we strive to live lives that honor God and bless those who will inherit the earth after us.