Genesis 15
1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Cross-references
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- 1Isa 41:10, Psa 119:114, Psa 84:11, Heb 13:5–6, Gen 26:24, Isa 41:14, Lam 3:24, Deu 33:26–29
- 2Gen 25:21, 1Sa 1:11, Act 7:5, Gen 12:1–3, Pro 17:2, Isa 56:5, Psa 127:3, Gen 43:19
- 3Gen 14:14, Pro 29:21, Ecc 2:7
- 4Gen 17:16, 2Sa 7:12, Gal 4:28, Gen 21:12, 2Ch 32:21, Phm 1:12, 2Sa 16:11
- 5Heb 11:12, Rom 4:18, Deu 1:10, Exo 32:13, Gen 22:17, Deu 10:22, Jer 33:22, 1Ch 27:23
- 6Jas 2:23, Gal 3:6–14, Rom 4:9, Rom 4:20–25, Rom 4:3–6, Psa 106:31, Heb 11:8, Rom 4:11
- 7Gen 12:1, Act 7:2–4, Psa 105:42, Rom 4:13, Gen 13:15–17, Psa 105:44, Neh 9:7–8, Gen 12:7
- 8Luk 1:18, Luk 1:34, 2Ki 20:8, Isa 7:11, Jdg 6:36–40, Jdg 6:17–24, Psa 86:17, Gen 24:2–4
- 9Lev 14:22, Lev 14:30, Luk 2:24, Lev 9:2, Lev 3:6, Lev 3:1, Lev 1:14, Isa 15:5
- 10Jer 34:18–19, Lev 1:17, Gen 15:17
- 11Mat 13:4, Psa 119:13, Ezk 17:7, Ezk 17:3
- 12Gen 2:21, Job 33:15, Dan 10:8–9, Act 9:8–9, 1Sa 26:12, Psa 4:3–5, Job 4:13–14
- 13Act 7:6–7, Exo 1:11, Exo 12:40–41, Act 7:17, Gal 3:17, Exo 1:1–2, Lev 19:34, Psa 105:11–12
- 14Neh 9:9–11, Exo 6:5–6, Exo 12:32–38, Jos 24:4–7, Exo 7:1–14, 1Sa 12:8, Psa 135:14, Deu 4:20
- 15Job 5:26, Gen 25:7–9, 2Ch 34:28, Num 27:13, Dan 12:13, Act 13:36, Jdg 2:10, Ecc 12:7
- 161Ki 21:26, Dan 8:23, Exo 12:40, Mat 23:32–35, 1Th 2:16, 2Pe 3:8–9, Zec 5:5–11
- 17Jer 34:18–19, Jdg 6:21, Jer 11:4, 1Ch 21:26, Exo 3:2–3, Isa 62:1, Deu 4:20, Jdg 13:20
- 18Jos 1:3–4, Gen 12:7, Gen 24:7, Gen 13:15, Deu 11:24, Num 34:5, Exo 23:27–31, Isa 27:12
- 19Num 24:21–22
- 20Isa 17:5, Gen 14:5
- 21Deu 7:1, Exo 34:11, Exo 23:23–28, Exo 33:2, Gen 10:15–19, Mat 8:28
Topics in this chapter
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Abraham, Adoption, Afflictions and Adversities, Amorites, Blessing, Canaan, Canaanites, Chaldea, Children, Concubinage, Condescension of God, Covenant, Damascus, Death, Doubting, Dove, Turtle, Egypt, Eliezer, Euphrates, Faith, Fire, Girgashites, Goat, God, Grace of God, Heir, Inheritance, Israel, Jebusites, Justification, Kenites, Kenizzites, Lamp, Land, Miracles, Offerings, Old Age, Perizzites, Pigeon, Prayer, Probation, Quotations and Allusions, Religion, Rephaim, Righteous, Righteousness, Rulers, Shield, Sign, Steward, Symbols and Similitudes, Ur, Vision