Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
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2I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
Cross References
Genesis 5:22After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 12:7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 18:1The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 24:40He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
Genesis 35:11God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
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 →