100 Bible Verses About Descendants

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.

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

And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:

In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,

And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:

And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.

And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

And they found Adoni–bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers.

Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

These are the names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath–shua the daughter of Ammiel:

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O Lord.

Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi–shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.

And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.

Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah;

Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

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.

The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth–shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.

And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

The sons of Salma; Beth–lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.

These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

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.

These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.