'Promised' in the Bible
Moses said to Hobab, son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite: “We’re setting out for the place the Lord promised: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”
Did I conceive this people or give birth to them, so that you would tell me to carry them near my heart like a wet nurse carries a suckling baby to the land that you promised to their forefathers?
The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? You will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you.”
"The LORD slaughtered this people in the wilderness because he wasn't able to bring them to the land that he promised them.'
"Now, let the power of the LORD be magnified, just as you promised when you said,
will ever see the land that I promised to their ancestors. Those who spurned me won't see it.
I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
“God is not a man, that He should lie,Nor a son of man, that He should repent.Has He said, and will He not do it?Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?
Now get out of here! I had promised you that I would definitely honor you, but now the LORD has kept me from doing that!"
When a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.
That's why the LORD's anger flared up that day and he promised by an oath that
"Not one of the men who went up from Egypt, from 20 years old and above, will see the land that I promised to give to their ancestors, that is, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because none of them followed me wholeheartedly,
Build cities for your dependents and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
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Related Words
- Aforepromised (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Compromise (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Compromises (2 instances in 2 translations)
- Long-promised (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Promiscuity (22 instances in 5 translations)
- Promiscuous (10 instances in 3 translations)
- Promiscuously (8 instances in 2 translations)
- Promise (237 instances in 12 translations)
- Promisedst (3 instances in 1 translation)
- Promises (74 instances in 12 translations)
- Promising (6 instances in 11 translations)
- Promisingly (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Promissory (3 instances in 2 translations)
- Uncompromising (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Uncompromisingly (89 instances in 1 translation)
Bible Theasaurus
- Anticipate (12 instances)
- Assure (83 instances)
- Call (513 instances)
- Foretell (7 instances)
- Predict (11 instances)
- Promise (237 instances)
- Promised (258 instances)
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