The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring , I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
2 Chronicles 20:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and who gave it for ever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Did not You, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend? American Standard Version (1901) Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? Common English Bible You, our God, drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave this land to the descendants of your friend Abraham forever. Catholic Public Domain Version Did not you, our God, put to death all the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel? And you gave it to the offspring of your friend Abraham, for all time. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? |
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring , I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
for I will give you and your offspring for ever all the land that you see.
I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.
Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God, ‘Lord, there is no one besides you to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, Lord our God, for we depend on you, and in your name we have come against this large army. Lord, you are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder you.’
They have lived in the land and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name and have said,
You found his heart faithful in your sight, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites – to give it to his descendants. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
I will send an angel ahead of you and will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labour of the Egyptians.
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend –
He said this, and then he told them, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on my way to wake him up.’
I do not call you servants any more, because a servant doesn’t know what his master , is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.
to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, , and he was called God’s friend.
‘Be strong and courageous, for you will distribute the land I swore to their ancestors to give them as an inheritance.
‘The Lord has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and no one is able to stand against you to this day.
I gave you a land you did not labour for, and cities you did not build, though you live in them; you are eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.”
But I took your father Abraham from the region beyond the River Euphrates, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,