Genesis 17:2

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I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will greatly multiply you.

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  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
  • Gen 13:16 : 16 I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants could also be counted.
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 On that day, the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—
  • Gen 17:4-6 : 4 "As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you the father of many nations. 6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore, and your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.
  • Ps 105:8-9 : 8 He remembers His covenant forever, the word He commanded for a thousand generations. 9 The covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac. 10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant. 11 Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.'
  • Gal 3:17-18 : 17 This is what I mean: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God gave it to Abraham through a promise.
  • Gen 9:9 : 9 'Behold, I am establishing My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

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  • Gen 17:3-10
    8 verses
    84%

    3Abram fell facedown, and God spoke with him, saying,

    4"As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

    5No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you the father of many nations.

    6I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.

    7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

    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.

    9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

    10This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

  • 14saying, 'Surely I will bless you abundantly and multiply your descendants greatly.'

  • Gen 12:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    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."

    2And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

    3I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.

  • Gen 17:19-21
    3 verses
    80%

    19Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

    20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him; I will make him fruitful and greatly multiply his descendants. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

    21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.

  • Gen 22:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16and said, 'By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

    17I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore, and your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

    18And through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.'

  • Gen 28:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become a community of peoples.

    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.

  • 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before Me faithfully and be blameless."

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    4I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and give them all these lands, and through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

  • 9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will confirm my covenant with you.

  • Gen 13:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants could also be counted.

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

  • Gen 35:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed a community of nations, will come from you, and kings will come from your own body."

    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.

  • 12Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from Esau, for I am afraid of him. He might come and strike me, the mothers, and the children.

  • 16I will bless her and surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will become the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.

  • 4He said to me, 'I am about to make you fruitful and multiply you. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.'

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

  • 10The angel of the LORD also said, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they cannot be counted because of their great numbers."

  • Deut 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10The LORD your God has multiplied you, and now you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

    11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised.

  • 24That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."

  • 62I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

  • 13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land—your grain, your new wine, and your fresh oil—the young of your livestock and the calves of your herds in the land that He swore to your ancestors to give you.

  • 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."