Acts 7:7

‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve me in this place.’

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

In Context

6God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

Exodus 7:1The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

Psalms 74:12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.

Psalms 105:27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

Psalms 136:10to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn, for his loving kindness endures forever;

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17

Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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