Leviticus 26:9

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Summary

Leviticus 26:9

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

For i

Hebrews 8:9

Make you

Psalm 107:38

Establish

General references

Genesis 1:22

Deuteronomy 28:4

Bible References

For i

God watched the Israelis and took notice of them.

but the LORD showed grace to them, displayed his compassion toward them, and turned to them due to his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He would not destroy them or evict them from his presence up until that time.

In reply to them, I said, "The God of Heaven will prosper us. That's why we're preparing to build. But as far as you're concerned, there exists no ancestral heritage, no legal right, nor any historic claim in Jerusalem.

I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise to David, my servant.

Though the LORD is highly exalted, yet he pays attention to those who are lowly regarded, but he is aware of the arrogant from afar.

"Call to me and I'll answer you, and will tell you about great and hidden things that you don't know.'

It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant, I ignored them, declares the Lord.

Make you

I'm going to cause you to have many descendants, and I'll bring nations from you. Kings will come from you.

I'll cause you to have as many descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I'll certainly give all these lands to your descendants. Later on, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless one another.

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people.

But the Israelis were fruitful and increased abundantly. They multiplied in numbers and became very, very strong. As a result, the land was filled with them.

"Blessed will your children be, as well as the produce of your land, the offspring of your beasts and cattle, and the offspring of your flock.

"You multiplied their descendants like the stars in heaven and brought them to the land about which you told their ancestors to enter and possess.

Then he blessed them, and they became numerous; he multiplied their cattle.

Establish

However, I will establish my own covenant with you, and you are to enter the ark you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives.

I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.

I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as resident aliens for a time.

Pay attention to me, come to me; and listen, so that you may live; then I'll make an everlasting covenant with you, as promised by my faithful, sure love for David.

I'll establish my covenant with you, and then you'll know that I am the LORD.

He has shown mercy to our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant,

General references

God blessed them by saying, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the oceans. Let the birds multiply throughout the earth!"

"Blessed will your children be, as well as the produce of your land, the offspring of your beasts and cattle, and the offspring of your flock.