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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 15:3

Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 21:9–11

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son, / and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!” / Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 24:36

My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 25:5, 6

Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. / But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 48:21, 22

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. / And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Numbers 27:6–11

and the LORD answered him, / “The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them. / Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 21:15–17

If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son, / when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife. / Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Kings 21:3

But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Chronicles 21:3

Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 42:15

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 2:18, 19

I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. / And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 32:6–8

Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying: / Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’ / Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ezekiel 46:16–18

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance. / But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs. / The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 15:12, 25–31

The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. / Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing. / ‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Galatians 3:15

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.

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Inheritance: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hebrews 9:16, 17

In the case of a will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one who made it, / because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.

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