Genesis 15:8

World English Bible (2000)

He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 1:18 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
  • 2 Kgs 20:8 : 8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?"
  • Ps 86:17 : 17 Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me. A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.
  • Isa 7:11 : 11 "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken, 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken." 38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. 39 Gideon said to God, "Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew." 40 God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
  • 1 Sam 14:9-9 : 9 If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them. 10 But if they say this, 'Come up to us!' then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us."
  • Gen 24:2-4 : 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
  • Gen 24:13-14 : 13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."
  • Judg 6:17-24 : 17 He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. 18 Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back." 19 Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. 20 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." He did so. 21 Then the angel of Yahweh stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight. 22 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face!" 23 Yahweh said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die." 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it "Yahweh is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?"

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 15:1-7
    7 verses
    87%

    1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

    2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

    3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

    4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

    5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

    6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

    7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

  • Gen 15:9
    79%

    9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

  • Gen 13:17
    76%

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

  • Ps 105:11
    75%

    11 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"

  • 1 Chr 16:18
    75%

    18 saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,"

  • Exod 6:8
    74%

    8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"

  • Gen 28:13
    74%

    13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

  • Gen 13:15
    74%

    15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

  • Gen 26:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

  • Gen 17:8
    73%

    8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

  • Deut 1:8
    73%

    8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them."

  • Gen 12:7
    73%

    7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

  • Gen 12:1
    73%

    1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 35:12
    73%

    12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

  • Gen 28:4
    72%

    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Acts 7:3
    72%

    3 and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'

  • Heb 11:8
    72%

    8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

  • Gen 18:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

    19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

  • Acts 7:5
    72%

    5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

  • Gen 15:18
    72%

    18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

  • Exod 32:13
    71%

    13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • Gen 13:9
    71%

    9 Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

  • Neh 9:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,

    8 and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

  • Ezek 33:24
    71%

    24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

  • Gen 24:7
    71%

    7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 31:9
    71%

    9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

  • Ezek 22:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

    17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Exod 13:11
    70%

    11 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,

  • Deut 34:4
    70%

    4 Yahweh said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

  • Gen 17:2
    70%

    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."