Genesis 15 (NET)

Genesis 15:1¹After these things the Lord ’s message came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:10Ps 119:114Ps 84:11Gen 26:24Heb 13:5-6Isa 41:14Deut 33:26-29Lam 3:24Luke 12:32Ps 5:12

Genesis 15:2²But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:211 Sam 1:11Acts 7:5Gen 12:1-3Gen 24:10Gen 24:2Gen 43:19Gen 44:1Isa 56:5Prov 17:2

Genesis 15:3³Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:14Prov 29:21Eccl 2:7

Genesis 15:4⁴But look, the Lord ’s message came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:162 Sam 7:12Gal 4:28Gen 21:122 Chr 32:21Phlm 1:122 Sam 16:11

Genesis 15:5⁵The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars—if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:12Rom 4:18Deut 1:10Exod 32:13Gen 22:17Deut 10:22Jer 33:221 Chr 27:23Ps 147:4Rom 9:7-8

Genesis 15:6⁶Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord credited it as righteousness to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:23Gal 3:6-14Rom 4:9Rom 4:20-25Rom 4:3-6Ps 106:31Heb 11:8Rom 4:11

Genesis 15:7⁷The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:1Acts 7:2-4Gen 13:15-17Neh 9:7-8Ps 105:42Ps 105:44Rom 4:13Gen 12:7Ps 105:11Gen 11:28-31

Genesis 15:8⁸But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:18Luke 1:342 Kgs 20:8Isa 7:11Judg 6:17-24Judg 6:36-40Ps 86:171 Sam 14:9-10Gen 24:13-14Gen 24:2-4

Genesis 15:9⁹The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 14:22Lev 14:30Luke 2:24Lev 1:14Lev 3:1Lev 3:6Lev 9:2Gen 22:13Isa 15:5Lev 1:10

Genesis 15:10¹⁰So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 34:18-19Lev 1:17Gen 15:17

Genesis 15:11¹¹When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:4Ps 119:13Ezek 17:3Ezek 17:7

Genesis 15:12¹²When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 2:21Job 33:15Dan 10:8-91 Sam 26:12Acts 9:8-9Job 4:13-14Ps 4:3-5

Genesis 15:13¹³Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for 400 years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:6-7Exod 1:11Exod 12:40-41Acts 7:17Exod 1:1-2Gal 3:17Lev 19:34Exod 23:9Gen 17:8Ps 105:11-12

Genesis 15:14¹⁴But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 9:9-11Exod 6:5-6Exod 12:32-38Josh 24:4-71 Sam 12:8Deut 4:20Exod 7:1-14Ps 135:14Deut 6:22Deut 7:18-19

Genesis 15:15¹⁵But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 5:26Gen 25:7-92 Chr 34:28Num 27:13Dan 12:131 Chr 29:28Acts 13:36Eccl 12:7Job 42:17Judg 2:10

Genesis 15:16¹⁶In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:26Dan 8:23Exod 12:40Matt 23:32-351 Thess 2:162 Pet 3:8-9Zech 5:5-11

Genesis 15:17¹⁷When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 34:18-19Judg 6:21Jer 11:41 Chr 21:26Exod 3:2-32 Sam 22:9Deut 4:20Isa 62:1Judg 13:20

Genesis 15:18¹⁸That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:3-4Gen 12:7Gen 24:7Gen 13:15Deut 11:24Exod 23:27-31Isa 27:12Neh 9:8Num 34:2-3Num 34:5

Genesis 15:19¹⁹the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:21-22

Genesis 15:20²⁰Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:5Isa 17:5

Genesis 15:21²¹Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:1Exod 23:23-28Exod 33:2Exod 34:11Gen 10:15-19Matt 8:28