Genesis 12:7

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 12:8

Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and worshiped him.

Genesis 13:15

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

Genesis 13:17

Get up! Walk through all this land because I am now giving it to you.”

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 13:4

and where he had built an altar. So he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 15:18

So on that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram and said, “I will give to your descendants the land between the river of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.

Genesis 17:3

Then Abram bowed facedown on the ground. God said to him,

Genesis 17:8

You live in the land of Canaan now as a stranger, but I will give you and your descendants all this land forever. And I will be the God of your descendants.”

Genesis 18:1

Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day.

Genesis 22:9

and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and the land of my relatives. And he promised me, “I will give this land to your descendants.’ The Lord will send his angel before you to help you get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 26:25

So Isaac built an altar and worshiped the Lord there. He also made a camp there, and his servants dug a well.

Genesis 26:3

Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give you and your descendants all these lands, and I will keep the oath I made to Abraham your father.

Genesis 28:13

Then Jacob saw the Lord standing above the ladder, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your grandfather, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are now sleeping.

Genesis 28:4

May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob named that place Peniel, saying, “I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved.”

Genesis 33:20

He built an altar there and named it after God, the God of Israel.

Genesis 35:12

The same land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you and your descendants.”

Genesis 35:7

There Jacob built an altar and named the place Bethel, after God, because God had appeared to him there when he was running from his brother.

Genesis 50:24

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

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.

2 Samuel 24:25

He built an altar to the Lord there and offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered his prayer for the country, and the disease in Israel stopped.

1 Kings 18:32

Elijah used these stones to rebuild the altar in honor of the Lord. Then he dug a ditch around the altar that was big enough to hold about thirteen quarts of seed.

1 Chronicles 16:16

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and the promise he made to Isaac.

1 Chronicles 16:18

He said, “I will give the land of Canaan to you, to belong to you.”

2 Chronicles 20:11

But see how they repay us for not destroying them! They have come to force us out of your land, which you gave us as our own.

2 Chronicles 20:7

Our God, you forced out the people who lived in this land as your people Israel moved in. And you gave this land forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham.

Ezra 3:2

Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests joined Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and began to build the altar of the God of Israel where they could offer burnt offerings, just as it is written in the Teachings of Moses, the man of God.

Exodus 17:15

Then Moses built an altar and named it The Lord Is My Banner.

Exodus 24:4

So Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And he got up early the next morning and built an altar near the bottom of the mountain. He set up twelve stones, one stone for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 32:13

Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.’ ”

Exodus 33:1

Then the Lord said to Moses, “You and the people you brought out of Egypt must leave this place. Go to the land that I promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give that land to your descendants.’

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by the name God Almighty, but they did not know me by my name, the Lord.

Exodus 6:4

I also made my agreement with them to give them the land of Canaan. They lived in that land, but it was not their own.

Jeremiah 3:18

In those days the family of Judah will join the family of Israel. They will come together from a land in the north to the land I gave their ancestors.

Numbers 26:53

“Divide the land among these people by the number of names.

Numbers 32:11

‘None of the people who came from Egypt and who are twenty years old or older will see the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These people have not followed me completely.

Acts 7:5

God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that he would give this land to him and his descendants, even before Abraham had a child.

Romans 9:8

This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those who become God’s children because of the promise God made to Abraham.

Galatians 3:16

God made promises both to Abraham and to his descendant. God did not say, “and to your descendants.” That would mean many people. But God said, “and to your descendant.” That means only one person; that person is Christ.

Galatians 4:28

My brothers and sisters, you are God’s children because of his promise, as Isaac was then.

Deuteronomy 1:8

See, I have given you this land, so go in and take it for yourselves. The Lord promised it to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their descendants.”

Deuteronomy 30:20

To choose life is to love the Lord your God, obey him, and stay close to him. He is your life, and he will let you live many years in the land, the land he promised to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 34:4

Then the Lord said to Moses, “This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said to them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’ I have let you look at it, Moses, but you will not cross over there.”

Deuteronomy 6:10

The Lord your God will bring you into the land he promised to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he will give it to you. The land has large, growing cities you did not build,

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Hebrews 11:13

All these great people died in faith. They did not get the things that God promised his people, but they saw them coming far in the future and were glad. They said they were like visitors and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 11:8

It was by faith Abraham obeyed God’s call to go to another place God promised to give him. He left his own country, not knowing where he was to go.

Joshua 1:6

“Joshua, be strong and brave! You must lead these people so they can take the land that I promised their fathers I would give them.

Joshua 22:10

The people of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh went to Geliloth, near the Jordan River in the land of Canaan. There they built a beautiful altar.

Joshua 8:30

Joshua built an altar for the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, as

Judges 6:24

So Gideon built an altar there to worship the Lord and named it The Lord Is Peace. It still stands at Ophrah, where the Abiezrites live.

1 Samuel 7:17

But Samuel always went back to Ramah, where his home was. There he judged Israel and built an altar to the Lord.