Genesis 15:16

Good News Translation (US Version)

It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”

Cross References

1 Kings 21:26

He committed the most shameful sins by worshiping idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the people of Israel advanced.)

Daniel 8:23

“When the end of those kingdoms is near and they have become so wicked that they must be punished, there will be a stubborn, vicious, and deceitful king.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!

Exodus 12:40

The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

Genesis 15:13

The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

Leviticus 18:24

Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the Lord is driving out so that you can go in.

2 Kings 21:11

“King Manasseh has done these disgusting things, things far worse than what the Canaanites did; and with his idols he has led the people of Judah into sin.

Genesis 10:16

Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 48:21

Then Jacob said to Joseph, “As you see, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will take you back to the land of your ancestors.

Genesis 50:24

He said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day—the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. This is the day the Lord brought you out by his great power. No leavened bread is to be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

You are leaving Egypt on this day in the first month, the month of Abib.

Deuteronomy 9:4

“After the Lord your God has driven them out for you, do not say to yourselves that he brought you in to possess this land because you deserved it. No, the Lord is going to drive these people out for you because they are wicked.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because you are good and do what is right that the Lord is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Psalm 105:43

So he led his chosen people out, and they sang and shouted for joy.