Genesis 17:3
And Abram falls on his face, and God speaks with him, saying,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
In Context
2and I give My covenant between Me and you, and multiply you very exceedingly.”
4“I—behold, My covenant [is] with you, and you have become father of a multitude of nations;
Cross References
Exodus 3:6He also says, “I [am] the God of your father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob”; and Moses hides his face, for he is afraid to look toward God.
Numbers 14:5And Moses falls—Aaron also—on their faces, before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 16:45“Get up from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”; and they fall on their faces,
Judges 13:20and it comes to pass, in the going up of the flame from off the altar toward the heavens, that the Messenger of YHWH goes up in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife are looking on, and they fall on their faces to the earth,
Ezekiel 1:28As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness all around.
Ezekiel 9:8And it comes to pass, as they are striking, and I am left—that I fall on my face, and cry, and say, “Aah! Lord YHWH, are You destroying all the remnant of Israel, in Your pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:2-4
The Covenant with Abraham Renewed. ( b. c. 1898.) 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, Here is, I. The time when God made Abram this gracious visit: When he was ninety-nine years old, full thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael. 1. So long, it… Read the whole commentary →