Isaiah 51:2

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Summary

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Unto abraham

For

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Unto abraham

After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:

Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield;
your reward will be very great.

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

But I took your father Abraham from the region beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor,

has found?

For

The Lord said to Abram:

Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.

After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

Abraham was now old, getting on in years,

and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

You are Yahweh,
the God who chose Abram
and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
and changed his name to Abraham.

“Son of man, those who live in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he received possession of the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’

So those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.