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Posterity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Descendants; children, children's children, etc. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam.

2. In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors.

3. To the unhappy that unjustly bleed,

4. Heav'n gives posterity t' avenge the deed.

Posterity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.

2. Succeeding generations; future times.

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16 KJV and 6 BSB verses contain “Posterity” — showing the first 20. Show all 21 verses (searchable)

Genesis 45:7

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Numbers 9:10

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

2 Samuel 14:7

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”

1 Kings 16:3

Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

1 Kings 21:21

Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Psalms 22:30

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.

Psalms 49:13

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

This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Isaiah 14:22

For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

Daniel 11:4

And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.

Amos 4:2

The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

1 Esdras 4:53

And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.

Sirach 41:6

The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish, and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.

Sirach 45:24

Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him, that he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people, and that he and his posterity should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever:

Sirach 45:25

According to the covenant made with David son of Jesse, of the tribe of Juda, that the inheritance of the king should be to his posterity alone: so the inheritance of Aaron should also be unto his seed.

Sirach 47:22

But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity of his elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away: wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of him a root unto David.

Baruch 2:15

That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

1 Maccabees 14:29

Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, wherein for the maintenance of their sanctuary, and the law, Simon the son of Mattathias, of the posterity of Jarib, together with his brethren, put themselves in jeopardy, and resisting the enemies of their nation did their nation great honour: