Quotes about Posterity

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.

However, the line of Korah did not die out.

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.”

During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.

Abishua was the father of Bukki, Bukki was the father of Uzzi,

From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

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

Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.