Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as many as the stars of heaven, and give to your descendants all these lands; and all the nations of the earth will invoke for themselves a blessing like that of your descendants,
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5because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Cross References
Genesis 12:2I 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.
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 15:18At that time the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”
Genesis 18:18since Abraham will become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth will want a blessing like his for themselves?
Genesis 22:18All the nations of the earth will ask for themselves a blessing like theirs, because you have obeyed my command.’”
Psalms 72:17May his name be blessed forever, may his fame endure as the sun. May all nations envy his blessedness, all tribes of the earth call him happy.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:2-6
Removal of Isaac to Gerar. ( b. c. 1804.) 1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy… Read the whole commentary →