Genesis 15:7
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
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In Context
6Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
8But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
Cross References
Genesis 11:28During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Genesis 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 13:15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
Numbers 33:53You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
Nehemiah 9:7You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
Psalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 15:3-7
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:… Read the whole commentary →