Genesis 15:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth; if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants too might be counted.

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been captured, he mustered three hundred and eighteen of his retainers, born in his house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:2

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?”

Proverbs 13:12

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

Proverbs 29:21

If servants are pampered from childhood they will turn out to be stubborn.

Proverbs 30:23

Under an unloved woman who is wed, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I acquired male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I also owned vast herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 12:1

You would be in the right, O Lord, if I should dispute with you; even so, I must lay out the case against you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, why do all the treacherous live in contentment?