38 Bible Verses about Abraham, Family And Descendants

And Abram will fall upon his face, and God will speak to him, saying, I, behold my covenant with thee, thou being father of a multitude of nations. And thy name shall no more be called Abram, and thy name shall be Abraham, for the father of a multitude of nations have I given thee.read more.
And I made thee fruitful with might exceedingly, and I gave thee for nations, and kings shall come forth from thee.

And for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I blessed him and made him fruitful, and I multiplied him with might exceedingly: twelve chiefs shall he beget, and I will give him into a great nation.

And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.

And Abraham being, shall be for a great and numerous nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in him.

Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God set with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all families of earth be praised.

And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee. And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great; and thou shalt be blessed.

And Joshua will say to all the people, So said Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt beyond the river from everlasting time, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor and they will serve other gods. And I will take your father Abraham from beyond the river, and I will lead him into all the land of Canaan, and I will multiply his seed and I will give to him Isaak.

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye: The God of glory was sent to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, And he said to him, Come out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

By faith Abraham, being called, listened, to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he came out, not knowing where he is coming. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise: For he awaited a city having foundations, whose artificer and maker is God.

Thou thyself Jehovah the God who chose in Abram, and thou broughtest him from Ur of the Chaldees, and didst set his name Abraham. And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and thou didst cut out a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perezzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give to his seed: and thou wilt set up thy words, for thou art just:

After these words, the word of Jehovah was to Abram in a vision, saying, Thou shalt not fear, Abram: I a shield to thee, thy reward great exceedingly. And Abram will say, My Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give to me, and I going childless, and the son of Masek in my house, he Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold the son of my house shall inherit me.read more.
And behold, the word of Jehovah was to him, saying, This shall not inherit thee, for truly he who shall come forth from thy bowels shall inherit thee. And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed. And he believed in Jehovah; and it shall be reckoned to him justice. And he will say to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee from Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it. And he will say, My Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he will take to him all these, and he will divide them, asunder in the midst, and will put each of its parts divided, opposite its companion: and the birds he divided not And the birds will come down upon the dead carcases, and Abram will drive them together. And the sun shall be going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him. And he will say to Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in the land not to them; and they shall serve them and they shall humble them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they shall serve, I will judge, and after this they shall come forth with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in tranquillity; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now. And the sun shall be going down, and it was thick darkness, and behold a furnace of smoke and a lamp of fire that passed over between these pieces. In that day Jehovah cut out a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed gave I this land from the river of Egypt, to the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites; The Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims; And the Amorites and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

And I brought you to a land which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, and I gave it to you a possession: I am Jehovah.

Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob.

Then having come out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Charran: and thence, after his father died, he transplanted him into this land, in which ye now dwell. And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.

And the man will bow down and prostrate himself to Jehovah. And he will say, Praised be Jehovah, God of lord Abraham, who let not go his kindness and his truth from my lord: I in the way, Jehovah led me to the house of my lord's brother.

The nobles of the peoples were gathered together, the people of the God. of Abraham: for to God the shields of the earth: he was lifted up greatly.

I the God of thy fathers, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And Moses being trembling, dared not observe attentively.

And he will say, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaak and the God of Jacob. And Moses will hide his face, for he will be afraid to look to God.

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works.

Remember his wonders which he did; his signs and the judgments of his mouth. The seed of Abraham his servant, the sons of Jacob his chosen.

And thou, Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose thee, the seed of Abraham my beloved:

He succored Israel his servant, remembering mercy; As he spake to our fathers, to Abram, and his seed forever.

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never served any; how sayest thou, That ye shall be free?

Men, brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent.

I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.

He is Jehovah our God: his judgments are in all the earth. He remembered his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations. Which he cut out with Abraham, and his oath to Isaak.read more.
And he will set it for a law to Jacob, to Israel an eternal covenant: Saying, To thee will give the land of Canaan, the line of your inheritance:

And it will be in these many days, and the king of Egypt will die: and the sons of Israel will groan, from the work; and they will cry out, and their supplication will go up to God from the work. And God will hear their groaning, and God will remember his covenant with Abraham, with Isaak and with Jacob. And God will see the sons of Israel, and God will know.

For he remembered his holy word with Abraham his servant And he will bring forth his people in joy, his chosen in rejoicing. And he will give to them the lands of the nations, and they will inherit the labor of the people;read more.
So that they shall watch his laws, and his instructions they shall observe. Praise ye Jah.

Praised the Lord God of Israel; for he reviewed and he has made a redemption for his people, And he raised up a horn of salvation to us in the house of David, his servant; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, from forever:read more.
Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all hating us; To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant: The oath which he sware to Abraham our father, To give to us, fearlessly, delivered from the hands of our enemies, To serve him in sanctity and justice before him all the days of our life.

And God will say to Abraham, Thou shalt watch my covenant., thou, and thy seed after thee to their generations. This my covenant which ye shall watch between me and beween you, and between thy seed after thee; every male among you to be circumcised. And ye circumcised the flesh of your uncircumcision; and it was for a sign of the covenant between me and between you.read more.
And the son of eight days shall be circumcised, every male of your generations being born in the house, and he bought with silver, from every son of the stranger which is not of thy seed. He shall be circumcised with circumcising, he being born in thy house, and bought with thy silver: and my covenant was in your flesh for an eternal covenant And the uncircumcised male which shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his uncircumcision, and that soul shall be cut off from its people: he broke my covenant

And in the eighth day the flesh of his uncircumcision shall be circumcised.

Moses has given you circumcision; (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and in the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

And certain having come down from Judea taught the brethren, That except ye be circumcised by Moses custom, ye cannot be saved.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

Of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Thara, of Nachor,

And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham. And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.

Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to, say in yourselves, We have a father A braham : for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones. And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire.

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never served any; how sayest thou, That ye shall be free? Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, say I to you, That every one doing sin, is servant of sin. And the servant remains not in the house forever; the Son remains forever.read more.
If the Son make you free, ye shall be truly free. I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, for my word has no place in you. I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do. They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works. And now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.