GENESIS 15:15-16 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation [your descendants] shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. For the most part, people are very...
GENESIS 15:13-14 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with...
GENESIS 15:2-4 But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’’ Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring: indeed one born in my house is my heir!’’ And behold, the word of...
GENESIS 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” Fear is everywhere. Even people who appear brave, if they’re honest, will admit to moments of immense fear. During World...
GENESIS 14:22-23 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth, that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that Is yours, lest...
GENESIS 14:14 Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. We live in violent times. The American Bar Association claims that crimes involving guns,...
GENESIS 13:14-15 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—north ward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.’’ In late summer the...
GENESIS 13:8-9 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the...
GENESIS 13:5-7 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great. ■ . . And there was strife between the herds men of Abram’s livestock and the...
GENESIS 13:1-2 Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South, Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. William Penn, the founder of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was well liked by the Indians....