Genesis 12:1

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The Obedience of Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,“Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

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  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
  • Rev 18:4 : 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,“Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,
  • Gen 15:7 : 7 The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
  • Josh 24:2-3 : 2 Joshua told all the people,“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘In the distant past your ancestors lived beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped other gods, 3 but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
  • Neh 9:7 : 7 “You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.
  • Isa 41:9 : 9 you whom I am bringing back from the earth’s extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions– I told you,“You are my servant.” I have chosen you and not rejected you.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.
  • Luke 14:26-33 : 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him. 30 They will say,‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’ 31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
  • Acts 7:2-6 : 2 So he replied,“Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, 3 and said to him,‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’ 4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live. 5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child. 6 But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
  • Ezek 33:24 : 24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying,‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family! 11 Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him!
  • Gen 11:31-32 : 31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.

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  • Acts 7:2-4
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    2So he replied,“Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

    3and said to him,‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

    4Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

  • Gen 12:2-9
    8 verses
    81%

    2Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

    3I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”

    4So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him to do, and Lot went with him.(Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

    5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

    6Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem.(At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

    7The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

    8Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.

    9Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

  • Gen 15:7-8
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    7The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

    8But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

  • Gen 13:17-18
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    17Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

    18So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

  • Gen 11:31
    77%

    31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

  • Gen 24:7
    76%

    7“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath,‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 13:14-15
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    76%

    14After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram,“Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

    15I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

  • Gen 15:1-2
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    76%

    1The Cutting of the Covenant After these things the LORD’s message came to Abram in a vision:“Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”

    2But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

  • Gen 26:2-3
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    2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

    3Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

  • Gen 31:13
    75%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”

  • Josh 24:3
    75%

    3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,

  • Neh 9:7
    75%

    7“You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.

  • Gen 13:9
    75%

    9Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

  • Exod 33:1
    74%

    1The LORD said to Moses,“Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,‘I will give it to your descendants.’

  • Heb 11:8
    74%

    8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

  • Gen 28:13
    74%

    13and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

  • Gen 22:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The Sacrifice of Isaac Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him,“Abraham!”“Here I am!” Abraham replied.

    2God said,“Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”

  • Gen 17:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

    6I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

  • Gen 28:4
    73%

    4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”

  • Gen 35:12
    73%

    12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”

  • Gen 13:1
    73%

    1Abram’s Solution to the Strife So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

  • Gen 18:18
    73%

    18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

  • Gen 17:2
    73%

    2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”