Genesis 15:16

New Living Translation

After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”

Cross References

Genesis 10:16

Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

Genesis 48:21

Then Jacob said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will take you back to Canaan, the land of your ancestors.

Genesis 50:24

“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

1 Kings 21:26

His worst outrage was worshiping idols just as the Amorites had done—the people whom the Lord had driven out from the land ahead of the Israelites.)

2 Kings 21:11

“King Manasseh of Judah has done many detestable things. He is even more wicked than the Amorites, who lived in this land before Israel. He has caused the people of Judah to sin with his idols.

Psalm 105:43

So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.

Exodus 12:40

The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

Exodus 13:3

So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the Lord has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)

Exodus 13:4

On this day in early spring, in the month of Abib, you have been set free.

Daniel 8:23

“At the end of their rule, when their sin is at its height, a fierce king, a master of intrigue, will rise to power.

Leviticus 18:24

“Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for the people I am driving out before you have defiled themselves in all these ways.

Deuteronomy 9:4

“After the Lord your God has done this for you, don’t say in your hearts, ‘The Lord has given us this land because we are such good people!’ No, it is because of the wickedness of the other nations that he is pushing them out of your way.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because you are so good or have such integrity that you are about to occupy their land. The Lord your God will drive these nations out ahead of you only because of their wickedness, and to fulfill the oath he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

as they try to keep us from preaching the Good News of salvation to the Gentiles. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.