Genesis 15 Notes, Meaning, and Commentary

Genesis 15

 

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:2

And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Genesis 15:4

And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 15:6

And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15:7

And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:8

And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

Genesis 15:9

And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

Genesis 15:10

And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.

Genesis 15:11

And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:12

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:13

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 15:14

and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Genesis 15:15

But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 15:16

And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

Genesis 15:17

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

Genesis 15:18

In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 15:19

the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

Genesis 15:20

and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

Genesis 15:21

and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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