Genesis 15
World English Bible (WEB) • 21 verses
1After these things the LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
2Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
RelatedGenesis 14:14 · Proverbs 29:21 · Ecclesiastes 2:7 · Jeremiah 12:1 · Hebrews 10:35-36 · Proverbs 13:12
4Behold, the LORD’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
RelatedGenesis 17:16 · Galatians 4:28 · 2 Samuel 7:12 · Genesis 21:12 · 2 Chronicles 32:21 · Philemon 1:12
5The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
RelatedHebrews 11:12 · Romans 4:18 · Deuteronomy 1:10 · Exodus 32:13 · Genesis 22:17 · Jeremiah 33:22
6He believed in the LORD, who credited it to him for righteousness.
7He said to Abram, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
8He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
9He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
RelatedLeviticus 14:22 · Leviticus 14:30 · Luke 2:24 · Leviticus 3:6 · Leviticus 3:1 · Leviticus 9:2
10He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
11The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
13He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
RelatedNehemiah 9:9-11 · Exodus 6:5-6 · Exodus 12:32-38 · Joshua 24:4-7 · Deuteronomy 4:20 · 1 Samuel 12:8
15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
RelatedJob 5:26 · Genesis 25:7-9 · 2 Chronicles 34:28 · Numbers 27:13 · Daniel 12:13 · 1 Chronicles 29:28
16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Related1 Kings 21:26 · Daniel 8:23 · Exodus 12:40 · Matthew 23:32-35 · 1 Thessalonians 2:16 · 2 Peter 3:8-9
17It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
RelatedJeremiah 34:18-19 · Judges 6:21 · Jeremiah 11:4 · Exodus 3:2-3 · 1 Chronicles 21:26 · Deuteronomy 4:20
18In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
RelatedJoshua 1:3-4 · Genesis 12:7 · Genesis 24:7 · Genesis 13:15 · Deuteronomy 11:24 · Numbers 34:2-3
19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
RelatedNumbers 24:21-22
20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
RelatedMatthew 8:28 · Deuteronomy 7:1 · Exodus 23:23-28 · Genesis 10:15-19 · Exodus 33:2 · Exodus 34:11
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