Genesis 12:7

Modern English Version

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Cross References

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and his Seed. He does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your Seed,” meaning one, who is Christ.

Genesis 17:8

All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am Almighty God. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 18:1

The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great oak trees of Mamre while he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 13:15

All the land that you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.

Genesis 13:4

to the place where he first made an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar to the Lord there.

Exodus 33:1

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’

Genesis 32:30

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.”

Genesis 26:25

He built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Numbers 32:11

‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and older, will see the ground which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they did not completely follow Me,

Genesis 12:8

From there he continued on to a mountain to the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Romans 9:8

So those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

Genesis 22:9

Then they came to the place that God had told him. So Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

Genesis 17:3

Abram fell on his face and God said to him,

Genesis 15:18

On that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River —

Galatians 4:28

Now we, brothers, like Isaac, are the children of promise.

Deuteronomy 30:20

that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 6:10

Then it shall be when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and fine cities, which you did not build,

Deuteronomy 1:8

See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.”

Exodus 6:3

and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by My name, The Lord, I was not known to them.

Genesis 33:20

He erected an altar there and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Genesis 28:13

And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you will I give it and to your descendants.

Genesis 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for I will give to you and all your descendants all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Acts 7:5

He gave him no inheritance in it, nor a foothold, and promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him while he had no child.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance. He went out not knowing where he was going.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s family and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He shall send His angel before you and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Exodus 6:4

I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they sojourned.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over there.”

1 Chronicles 16:16

that He made with Abraham, even His oath to Isaac.

Genesis 13:17

Arise, and walk throughout the land across its length and its width, for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 28:4

May He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 35:7

There he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he fled from his brother.

Genesis 35:12

The land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.”

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. God will surely come to you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Exodus 17:15

Then Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner;

Exodus 24:4

Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Numbers 26:53

To these the land will be divided for an inheritance by the number of names.

Joshua 1:6

“Be strong and courageous, for you shall provide the land that I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance for this people.

Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal,

Joshua 22:10

The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh came near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built a very large altar by the Jordan.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar for the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. Even to this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

1 Samuel 7:17

But his return was to Ramah, for his house was there and there he judged Israel. And there he built an altar to the Lord.

2 Samuel 24:25

David built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the land pleaded with the Lord, and the plague was averted from Israel.

1 Kings 18:32

and he built an altar in the name of the Lord with stones, and he made a trench around the altar, so deep that it could contain two seahs of seed.

1 Chronicles 16:18

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

2 Chronicles 20:7

Did You not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?

2 Chronicles 20:11

behold how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

Ezra 3:2

Then Joshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests stood up, along with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and they built the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it had been written in the Law of Moses, the man of God.

Jeremiah 3:18

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given to your fathers for an inheritance.