Genesis 15:3
Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”
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- Gen 14:14 : 14 When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan.
- Prov 29:21 : 21 If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.
- Prov 30:23 : 23 under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
- Eccl 2:7 : 7 I purchased male and female slaves, and I owned slaves who were born in my house; I also possessed more livestock– both herds and flocks– than any of my predecessors in Jerusalem.
- Jer 12:1 : 1 LORD, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?
- Heb 10:35-36 : 35 So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward. 36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.
- Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.
- Gen 12:2 : 2 Then 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.
- Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.
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- Gen 15:1-22 verses86%
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 15:4-52 verses86%
4But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
5The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
- Gen 16:1-22 verses77%
1The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
2So Sarai said to Abram,“Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.
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15I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
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36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.
- Gen 17:18-192 verses75%
18Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”
19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
- Gen 15:7-82 verses75%
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 21:12-132 verses74%
12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
13But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”
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5He 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.
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18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
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30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
- Gen 17:8-92 verses73%
8I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
9Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
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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.
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13Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
- Gen 16:5-62 verses73%
5Then Sarai said to Abram,“You have brought this wrong on me! I gave my servant into your embrace, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the LORD judge between you and me!”
6Abram said to Sarai,“Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.
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15So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.
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12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
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10So she said to Abraham,“Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”
- Gen 17:4-63 verses72%
4“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
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.
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17Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”
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21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
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16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.
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16and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
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7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
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1The 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.
- Gen 17:15-162 verses71%
15Then God said to Abraham,“As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
16I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”
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18Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
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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.”
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18That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River–
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2Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had,“Put your hand under my thigh
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5Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.
- Gen 24:6-72 verses71%
6“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.
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.
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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.