Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
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2I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
Cross References
Genesis 5:22And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 12:7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 18:1Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
Genesis 24:40And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
Genesis 35:11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:1
This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part, and pious Abram, the father of the faithful, on the other part. Abram is therefore called "the friend of God," not only because he was the man of his counsel, but because he was the man of his covenant; both these secrets were with him. Mention was made of this covenant ( ch. xv. 18 ), but here it is particularly drawn up, and put into the form of a covenant, that Abram might… Read the whole commentary →