Acts 7:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He didn’t give him an inheritance in it #– #not even a foot of ground #– #but he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him,  even though he was childless.

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

And to you and your future offspring  , I will give the land where you are residing #– #all the land of Canaan #– #as a permanent possession,  and I will be their God.’

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring  , I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘I give this land to your offspring,  from the Brook of Egypt  to the great river, the River Euphrates:

Genesis 13:15

for I will give you and your offspring  for ever all the land that you see.

Genesis 26:3

stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you.  For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring,  and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful in your sight, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites – to give it to his descendants. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord then said to him, ‘This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “I will give it to your descendants.”  I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.’

Deuteronomy 11:9

and so that you may live long  in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 10:11

Then the Lord said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their ancestors.”

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to fulfil the promise he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 2:5

Don’t provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot of it,  because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.

Genesis 23:4

‘I am a foreigner residing among you.  Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’  ,

Genesis 16:2

Sarai said to Abram, ‘Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.’ And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

Ezekiel 33:24

‘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; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.”