Genesis 26:3

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Summary

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

Sojourn

I will be

Oath

General references

Bible References

Sojourn

Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

I will be

And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

Oath

Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

General references

And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,