Acts 7:2

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And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

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  • Gen 11:31 : 31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
  • Ps 29:3 : 3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.
  • Neh 9:7 : 7 You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;
  • John 1:14 : 14 And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
  • Gen 15:7 : 7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
  • Rev 4:11 : 11 It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.
  • Rev 5:12-13 : 12 Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. 13 And to my ears came the voice of everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and of all things which are in them, saying, To him who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb, may blessing and honour and glory and power be given for ever and ever.
  • Gen 29:4 : 4 Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran.
  • Josh 24:2 : 2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
  • Gen 12:1 : 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
  • Gen 12:5 : 5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.
  • Isa 6:3 : 3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
  • Matt 6:13 : 13 And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
  • Luke 2:14 : 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.
  • John 12:41 : 41 (Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
  • Ps 24:7 : 7 Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.
  • Ps 24:10 : 10 Who is the King of glory? The Lord of armies, he is the King of glory. (Selah.)
  • Acts 23:7 : 7 And when he had said this, there was an argument between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and a division in the meeting.
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:
  • 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. 5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

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    3 And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

    4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

    5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

  • Gen 12:6-7
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    6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

    7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

  • Gen 15:7
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    7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

  • Neh 9:7
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    7 You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

  • Acts 7:1
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    1 Then the high priest said, Are these things true?

  • Acts 7:32
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    32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

  • Gen 18:1-2
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    1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

    2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

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    2 And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:

  • Heb 7:10
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    10 Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.

  • 1 Chr 1:26-27
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    26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

    27 Abram (that is Abraham).

  • Gen 17:3
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    3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

  • Luke 1:73
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    73 The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,

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    31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

  • Josh 24:3
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    3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 13:3
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    3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

  • Gen 24:7
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    7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

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    17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

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    1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

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    18 And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

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    15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

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    6 But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.

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    12 But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

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    16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;

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    1 For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

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    17 The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.

  • Rom 4:1
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    1 What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

  • Gen 17:1
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    1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

  • Gen 19:27
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    27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

  • Gen 22:11
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    11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.