Genesis 17:1
When Abram was nynetye yere olde and ix. the LORde apeared to hym sayenge: I am the almyghtie God: walke before me ad be vncorrupte.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I wyll make my bonde betwene the and me and wyll multiplye the excedyngly.
Cross References
Genesis 5:22And Henoch walked wyth god after he had begot Mathusala.iij. hundred yere and begat sonnes and doughters.
Genesis 6:9These are the generatios of Noe. Noe was a righteous man and vncorrupte in his tyme and walked wyth god.
Genesis 12:7Then the LORde apeared vnto Abram ad sayd: vnto thy seed wyll I geue thys lade. And he buylded an aultere there vnto the LORDE which apeared to hym.
Genesis 18:1And the LORde apeared vnto him in the okegrove of Mamre as he sat in his tent doze in the heate of the daye.
Genesis 24:40And he sayde vnto me: The LORde before whome I walke wyll sende his angell with the and prosper thy iourney that thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne of my kynred and of my fathers house.
Genesis 35:11And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmightie growe and multiplye: for people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the yee ad kynges shall come out of they loynes.
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 →