Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation; and I will surely bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.
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Genesis 13:16I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth, so that if someone could count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.
Genesis 15:5Then God brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them! So will your descendants be.”
Genesis 17:20However I have heard you regarding Ishmael: I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and his descendants exceedingly many. Twelve princes he will father, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 19:29God had remembered Abraham when he destroyed the cities of the plain and rescued Lot from the destruction.
Genesis 22:18All the nations of the earth will ask for themselves a blessing like theirs, because you have obeyed my command.’”
Genesis 24:35and the Lord has blessed my master greatly, so that he has become very rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, servants, and camels and donkeys.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:2-4
The Call of Abram. ( b. c. 1921.) 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. We have here the call by which Abram was removed out of the land of his nativity… Read the whole commentary →