Nehemiah 9:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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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.
  • Gen 17:5 : 5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
  • Deut 10:15 : 15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.
  • Josh 24:2-3 : 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. 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.
  • Isa 41:8-9 : 8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend: 9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:
  • 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.
  • Acts 7:2-4 : 2 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, 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:
  • Gen 12:1-2 : 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: 2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
  • 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.

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  • Gen 15:7-8
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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.

    8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?

  • Neh 9:8
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    8 You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

  • Gen 12:1-2
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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:

    2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

  • Acts 7:2-4
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    2 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,

    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:

  • Deut 7:6-8
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    6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

    7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

    8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

  • 2 Chr 20:7
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    7 Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?

  • Ps 105:6
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    6 O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

  • Deut 4:37-38
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    37 And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Josh 24:3
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
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    53 For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

  • Gen 12:7
    72%

    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.

  • Isa 41:8-9
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    8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

    9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:

  • Deut 10:15
    71%

    15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

  • 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.

  • Deut 14:2
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    2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • 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 17:4-5
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    4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

    5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

  • Deut 29:13
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    13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Isa 44:1
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    1 And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:

  • Exod 6:7-8
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    7 And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

    8 And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.

  • Neh 9:6
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    6 You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

  • Gen 28:13
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    13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

  • 1 Chr 1:27
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    27 Abram (that is Abraham).

  • Isa 45:4
    69%

    4 Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.

  • Ps 135:4
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    4 For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

  • 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.

  • Exod 32:13
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    13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

  • Gen 17:9
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    9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

  • Deut 9:5
    69%

    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Gen 15:2
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    2 And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.