Acts 7:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

The covenant

And so

Genesis 17:12

Genesis 21:1

And isaac

And jacob

1 Chronicles 2:1

Patriarchs

Acts 2:29

Hebrews 7:4

General references

Genesis 21:3

Psalm 105:9

Luke 1:59

Bible References

The covenant

Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

And so

Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

And isaac

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

For this is what the promise declared: "About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son."

And jacob

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor -- and her labor was hard.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt -- each man with his household entered with Jacob:

These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar and Zebulun;

Patriarchs

"Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

General references

Abraham named his son -- whom Sarah bore to him -- Isaac.

the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.