Genesis 15:12

And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and behold! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

In Context

11And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram + 15:11 Or, drove them away. The LXX. seem to have read ישנ for שינ sat down by them.

13And it was said to Abram, You shall surely know that your seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:21And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.

Job 4:13But as when terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

Psalms 4:3But know you⌃ that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him. 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 15:8-12

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… Read the whole commentary →

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