Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord revealed himself to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty, walk before me and be blameless
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2and I will make my covenant between me and you and will make your descendants exceedingly numerous.”
Cross References
Genesis 5:22Enoch walked with God for three hundred years after he had Methuselah, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:9This is the story of Noah. Among the people of his time, Noah was righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 12:7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” There Abram built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 18:1The Lord also appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he was sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day;
Genesis 24:40he said to me, ‘The Lord, whom I love and serve, will send his messenger with you and make you successful, and you will find for my son a wife from among my relatives and my father’s family.
Genesis 35:11God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and become numerous; a nation and a multitude of nations will come from you, and kings will 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 →