Genesis 15:2

New American Bible - revised edition

But Abram said, “Lord God, what can you give me, if I die childless and have only a servant of my household, Eliezer of Damascus?”

Cross References

Genesis 14:15

He and his servants deployed against them at night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

Genesis 15:1

Some time afterward, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not fear, Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great.

Genesis 15:3

Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a servant of my household will be my heir.”

Genesis 24:10

The servant then took ten of his master’s camels, and bearing all kinds of gifts from his master, he made his way to the city of Nahor in Aram Naharaim.

Genesis 24:2

Abraham said to the senior servant of his household, who had charge of all his possessions: “Put your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 25:21

Isaac entreated the Lord on behalf of his wife, since she was sterile. The Lord heard his entreaty, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 39:9

He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”

Genesis 43:19

So they went up to Joseph’s steward and talked to him at the entrance of the house.

Genesis 44:1

Then Joseph commanded his steward: “Fill the men’s bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his bag.

Psalm 127:3

Certainly sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a wish fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant will rule over an unworthy son, and will share the inheritance of the children.

Isaiah 17:1

Oracle on Damascus: See, Damascus shall cease to be a city and become a pile of ruins;

Isaiah 56:5

I will give them, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name Better than sons and daughters; an eternal name, which shall not be cut off, will I give them.

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath and Arpad are shamed, for they have heard bad news; Anxious, they surge like the sea which cannot calm down.

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.

Ruth 2:6

The young man overseeing the harvesters answered, “She is the young Moabite who came back with Naomi from the plateau of Moab.

1 Samuel 1:11

and made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if you look with pity on the hardship of your servant, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life. No razor shall ever touch his head.”