INHERITANCE

Passages on this topic · 87

• Genesis 15:3

  Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

• Genesis 21:9

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• Genesis 21:10

  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:11

  The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

• Genesis 24:36

  Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

• Genesis 25:5

  Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

• Genesis 25:6

  but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

• Genesis 38:7

  Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. Yahweh killed him.

• Genesis 38:8

  Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

• Genesis 38:9

  Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

• Genesis 38:10

  The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

• Genesis 38:11

  Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

• Genesis 48:21

  Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

• Numbers 27:6

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 27:7

  “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

• Numbers 27:8

  You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

• Numbers 27:9

  If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

• Numbers 27:10

  If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

• Numbers 27:11

  If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”

• Numbers 36:6

  This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

• Numbers 36:7

  So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

• Numbers 36:8

  Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

• Numbers 36:9

  So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’”

• Deuteronomy 21:15

  If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

• Deuteronomy 21:16

  then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

• Deuteronomy 21:17

  but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

• Deuteronomy 25:5

  If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

• Deuteronomy 25:6

  It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 25:7

  If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

• Deuteronomy 25:8

  Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;

• Deuteronomy 25:9

  then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

• Deuteronomy 25:10

  His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

• Ruth 3:1

  Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

• Ruth 3:2

  Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.

• Ruth 3:3

  Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

• Ruth 3:4

  It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”

• Ruth 3:5

  She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”

• Ruth 3:6

  She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

• Ruth 3:7

  When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

• Ruth 3:8

  At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of legalizing transactions in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his shoe.

• Ruth 4:9

  Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

• Ruth 4:10

  Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 4:11

  All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

• Ruth 4:12

  Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”

• Ruth 4:13

  So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

• Ruth 4:14

  The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

• Ruth 4:15

  He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

• Ruth 4:16

  Naomi took the child, and laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

• Ruth 4:17

  The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

• 1 Kings 21:3

  Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

• Job 42:15

  In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

• Psalms 37:29

  The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

• Proverbs 17:2

  A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

• Proverbs 20:21

  An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

• Ecclesiastes 2:18

  I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

• Ecclesiastes 2:19

  Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

• Jeremiah 32:6

  Jeremiah said, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Jeremiah 32:7

  ‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, “Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.”’”

• Jeremiah 32:8

  “So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.

• Ezekiel 46:16

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

• Ezekiel 46:17

  But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

• Ezekiel 46:18

  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.

• Luke 15:12

  The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

• Luke 15:25

  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

• Luke 15:26

  He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

• Luke 15:27

  He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

• Luke 15:28

  But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

• Luke 15:29

  But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

• Luke 15:30

  But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

• Luke 15:31

  “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

• Acts 20:32

  Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• Acts 26:18

  to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

• Romans 8:16

  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

• Romans 8:17

  and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

• Galatians 3:15

  Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

• Ephesians 1:11

  in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;

• Ephesians 1:12

  to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

• Ephesians 1:13

  in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation — in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

• Ephesians 1:14

  who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

• Titus 3:7

  that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

• Hebrews 1:14

  Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

• Hebrews 9:16

  For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

• Hebrews 9:17

  For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.