Genesis 35:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

God almighty

A nation

General references

Hebrews 7:10

Bible References

God almighty

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,

I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.

And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

A nation

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

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

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

General references

And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

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

Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.