Genesis 15:8

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But Abram said, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"

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  • Luke 1:18 : 18 Zechariah said to the angel, 'How can I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.'
  • 2 Kgs 20:8 : 8 Hezekiah asked Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"
  • Ps 86:17 : 17 Show me a sign of Your goodness, so that my enemies may see it and be ashamed, for You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
  • Isa 7:11 : 11 'Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.'
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 Gideon said to God, 'If you are truly going to use me to save Israel as you have promised, 37 Look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and the ground remains dry, then I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said. 38 And that is exactly what happened. When Gideon rose early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung enough dew from it to fill a bowl with water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, 'Please do not be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Allow me to test just once more with the fleece. Let the fleece remain dry, while dew covers the ground around it.' 40 That night, God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and the ground around it was covered with dew.
  • 1 Sam 14:9-9 : 9 If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay in our place and not go up to them. 10 But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will go up, for the Lord has handed them over to us. That will be our sign.
  • Gen 24:2-4 : 2 Abraham said to his servant, the eldest in his household who managed all he owned, "Please, place your hand under my thigh. 3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living. 4 Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.
  • Gen 24:13-14 : 13 "See, I am standing here by the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. 14 May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."
  • Judg 6:17-24 : 17 Gideon replied, 'If I have found favor in your sight, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me.' 18 Please do not leave here until I return to you and bring my offering and set it before you.' And the Lord said, 'I will stay until you return.' 19 So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and from an ephah of flour made unleavened bread. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out and offered them under the terebinth tree. 20 The angel of God said to him, 'Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.' And Gideon did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared from his sight. 22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, 'Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!' 23 But the Lord said to him, 'Peace be with you. Do not be afraid; you will not die.' 24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it 'The Lord is Peace.' To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 Mary said to the angel, 'How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?'

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    1After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, and your reward will be very great."

    2Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

    3And Abram said, "You have given me no children, so a servant in my household will be my heir."

    4Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."

    5He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He added, "So will your descendants be."

    6Abram believed the LORD, and He credited it to him as righteousness.

    7And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

  • Gen 15:9
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    9The LORD said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

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    17Arise, walk through the land, its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you.

  • Ps 105:11
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    11Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.'

  • 1 Chr 16:18
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    18He said, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance."

  • Exod 6:8
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    8'And I will bring you to the land that I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.'

  • Gen 28:13
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    13And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.'

  • Gen 13:15
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    15For all the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.

  • Gen 26:2-3
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    2The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in the land that I will show you.

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father.

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    8And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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    8See, I have set the land before you. Go and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.

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    7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."

  • Gen 35:12
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    12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.

  • Acts 7:3
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    3'He said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.'

  • Heb 11:8
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    8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

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    18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all nations of the earth will be blessed.

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    5But God gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at that time Abraham had no child.

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    7You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

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