Quotes About Heritage

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

Then you are to answer them: ëIt is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the entire house of the Rechabites—

“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ëNeither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.

Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.í

But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.

Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBecause you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ëLike mother, like daughter.í

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers.

wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ëAbraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.í

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.