Genesis 26:4

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Genesis 26:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

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.

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,

5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.

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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.

Genesis 15:5

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

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 17:4

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:5

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

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 22:17

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Hebrews 11:2

This is why the ancients were commended.

Genesis 12:2

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 22:18

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Psalms 72:17

May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

Acts 3:25

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

Galatians 3:8

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Galatians 3:16

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.