Genesis 13:16
I 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.
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15for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.
17Rise, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”
Cross References
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 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and will make nations of you, and kings will spring from you.
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 21:13But I will also make the son of the slave-girl into a nation, because he is your son.”
Genesis 25:1Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and numerous, so that you may become a great people,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:15-18
God Confirms His Promise to Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of… Read the whole commentary →