Genesis 17:1
And Abram was son of ninety and nine years: and the Lord was revealed to Abram, and said to him, I am EI-shadai; serve before Me, and be perfect;
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I will set a covenant between My Word and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly much.
Cross References
Genesis 5:22And Hanok walked in the fear of the Lord, after he had begotten Methushelach, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:9These are the memorials of Noach. Noach was a man righteous and perfect in his generation; in the fear of the Lord walked Noach.
Genesis 12:7And the Lord revealed Himself unto Abram, and said, To thy sons will I give this land. And he builded there an altar before the Lord who had been revealed to him.
Genesis 18:1And the Lord was revealed to him in the Vale of Mamre; and he sat in the door of the tent while the day was hot.
Genesis 24:40And he said to me, The Lord before whom I worship will send His angel with thee, and will prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
Genesis 35:11And the Lord said to him, I am El Shadai; increase and multiply; a people and an assemblage of tribes shall be from thee, and kings who shall reign over the peoples shall come forth from thee.
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 →