Bible Verses about 'Ancestors'

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• May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us.
  1 Kings 8:57nearnessreliabilityfamily
• Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
  Don’t be silent at my tears.
  For I am a stranger with you,
  a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  Psalm 39:12prayersadnesshumility
• Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
  Zechariah 1:4conversionevillistening
• Knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ.
  1 Peter 1:18-19SaviorJesuslife
• I thank you and praise you,
  O God of my fathers,
  who have given me wisdom and might,
  and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
  for you have made known to us the king’s matter.
  Daniel 2:23worshipwisdomprayer
• He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
  Deuteronomy 8:3sufferingWord of Godlife
• If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
  Joshua 24:15familyidolsfollowing
• For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
• But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
  being small among the clans of Judah,
  out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel;
  whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
  Micah 5:2christmasprophecyJesus