“predecessors” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word predecessors appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 3 matching verses are shown below.
- Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.
- Esther 14:5 I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.
- 1 Machabees 11:26 And the king treated him as his predecessors had done before: and he exalted him in the sight of all his friends.