Genesis 15:4
But 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.”
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- Gen 17:16 : 16 I 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!”
- Gal 4:28 : 28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
- Phlm 1:12 : 12 I have sent him(who is my very heart) back to you.
- Gen 21:12 : 12 But 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.
- 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 2 Sam 16:11 : 11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants,“My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the LORD has spoken to him.
- 2 Chr 32:21 : 21 The LORD sent a messenger and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib returned home humiliated. When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
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- Gen 15:1-33 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?”
3Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”
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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 17:4-63 verses74%
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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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 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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18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
- Gen 15:7-82 verses73%
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?”
- Rom 9:7-93 verses73%
7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
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19Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.
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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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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.
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12When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom.
- Gen 22:16-183 verses71%
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,
17I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
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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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.
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11Then God said to him,“I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation– even a company of nations– will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
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15I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
- Acts 7:3-53 verses71%
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.
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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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.
- Gen 18:18-192 verses71%
18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.
19I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”
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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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4I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
- 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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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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36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.
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10I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.”
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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!”
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23But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.
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14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
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30But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
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23and the LORD said to her,“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”