Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. 3. (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. 4. (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held any another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. 5. (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. 6. (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.

Multi-Version Concordance Succession (2 Occurrences) Acts 3:24 And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after him, as many as have spoken, have announced also these days. (DBY) Acts 7:45 which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David, (YLT)