Genesis 13:15

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Genesis 13:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

14 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

17 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

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Genesis 12:7

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:8

And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

Genesis 18:18

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 24:7

The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 26:3

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:4

And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 28:13

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Genesis 35:12

The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Genesis 48:4

and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

Exodus 33:1

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’

Numbers 34:2

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

Numbers 34:12

Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”

Numbers 34:13

So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.

Numbers 34:14

For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.

Numbers 34:15

These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

Numbers 34:16

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 34:17

“These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 34:18

Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

Numbers 34:19

These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

Numbers 34:20

Shemuel son of Ammihud from the tribe of Simeon;

Numbers 34:21

Elidad son of Chislon from the tribe of Benjamin;

Numbers 34:22

Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan;

Numbers 34:23

Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;

Numbers 34:24

Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;

Numbers 34:25

Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a leader from the tribe of Zebulun;

Numbers 34:26

Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader from the tribe of Issachar;

Numbers 34:27

Ahihud son of Shelomi, a leader from the tribe of Asher;

Numbers 34:28

and Pedahel son of Ammihud, a leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”

Numbers 34:29

These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

Deuteronomy 26:2

you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

Deuteronomy 26:3

to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”

Deuteronomy 26:4

Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 34:4

And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

2 Chronicles 20:7

Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?

Nehemiah 9:7

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Psalms 37:22

Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.

Psalms 37:29

The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

Psalms 105:9

the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.

Psalms 105:10

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Psalms 105:11

“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

Psalms 105:12

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Psalms 112:1

Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

Psalms 112:2

His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Isaiah 63:18

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Matthew 5:5

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Acts 7:5

He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.