Bible Verses AboutGenerations
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.
Most Helpful Verses
Begin with these carefully selected verses that address this topic most directly.
I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Scripture Passages
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.
I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
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 Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
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;
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.
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.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Kirjath–baal, which is Kirjath–jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
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 Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai–roi.
It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En–hazor,
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
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:
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
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 they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth–baal, and Beth–baal–meon,
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
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 Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
So the people rested on the seventh day.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
And they had in their inheritance Beer–sheba, Sheba, and Moladah,
Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
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.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai–roi.
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.
And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
And Humtah, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
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;
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.
And another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
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.
And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
And Remeth, and En–gannim, and En–haddah, and Beth–pazzez;
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
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.
And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
Reflection
Contemplating Generations
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.
May these verses about generations bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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