Genesis 15:18

New American Bible - revised edition

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates,

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

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

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, and who confirmed by oath the promise he made to me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants’—he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 13:15

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

Isaiah 27:12

On that day, The Lord shall beat out grain from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you shall be gleaned one by one, children of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful in your sight, you made the covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to him and his descendants. You fulfilled your promises, for you are just.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

Numbers 34:5

Then the boundary will turn from Azmon to the Wadi of Egypt and terminate at the Sea.

Hebrews 13:20

May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord,

Jeremiah 32:40

With them I will make an everlasting covenant, never to cease doing good to them; I will put fear of me in their hearts so that they never turn away from me.

2 Chronicles 9:26

He was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines and down to the border of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord then said to him, This is the land about which I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “I will give it to your descendants.” I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross over.

Exodus 23:23

My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing—

Psalm 105:11

“To you I give the land of Canaan, your own allotted inheritance.”

Joshua 15:4

it crossed to Azmon and then joined the Wadi of Egypt before coming out at the sea. (This is your southern boundary.)

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and removes many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers: “I am about to die. God will surely take care of you and lead you up from this land to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Genesis 35:12

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

Genesis 28:4

May God extend to you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham, so that you may gain possession of the land where you are residing, which he assigned to Abraham.”

Exodus 34:11

As for you, observe what I am commanding you today. See, I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were residing as aliens.

Exodus 3:8

Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

1 Chronicles 5:9

toward the east they dwelt as far as the wilderness which extends from the Euphrates River, for they had much livestock in the land of Gilead.

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house firm before God? He has made an eternal covenant with me, set forth in detail and secured. Will he not bring to fruition all my salvation and my every desire?

Genesis 2:14

The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to me; listen, that you may have life. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the steadfast loyalty promised to David.

2 Samuel 8:3

David then defeated Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to re-establish his dominion at the River.

Acts 7:5

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but he did promise to give it to him and his descendants as a possession, even though he was childless.

Revelation 9:14

telling the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the banks of the great river Euphrates.”

Exodus 6:8

and I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your own possession—I, the Lord!

Exodus 13:11

“When the Lord, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, just as he swore to you and your ancestors, and gives it to you,

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’”

Deuteronomy 12:20

After the Lord, your God, has enlarged your territory, as he promised you, and you think, “I will eat meat,” as it is your desire to eat meat, you may eat it freely;

Deuteronomy 19:8

But if the Lord, your God, enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors, and gives you all the land he promised your ancestors he would give,

2 Chronicles 7:8

On this occasion Solomon and with him all Israel, a great assembly from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt, celebrated the festival for seven days.

2 Chronicles 8:7

All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were not Israelites—

Ezra 4:20

Powerful kings once ruled in Jerusalem who controlled all West-of-Euphrates, and taxes, tributes, and tolls were paid to them.

Exodus 2:24

God heard their moaning and God was mindful of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Exodus 34:24

Since I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your territory, no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord, your God.

Leviticus 26:42

I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac; and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember. The land, too, I will remember.

Leviticus 26:45

I will remember for them the covenant I made with their forebears, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.

Joshua 13:3

(from the stream adjoining Egypt to the boundary of Ekron in the north is reckoned Canaanite territory, though held by the five lords of the Philistines in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron);

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, down to the border of Egypt; they paid Solomon tribute and served him as long as he lived.

1 Chronicles 16:16

Which was made with Abraham, confirmed by oath to Isaac,

Jeremiah 32:22

And you gave them this land, as you had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.