Genesis 15:2 - Prayer Tents

God’s Covenant with Abram

15After this, Abram had a vision and heard the LORD say to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward."H310H1697H1697H3068H1961H87H4236H559H3372H87H4043H3966H7235H7939

2But Abram answered, "Sovereign LORD, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.H87H559H136H3069H5414H1980H6185H1121H4943H1004H1931H461H1834

3You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."H87H559H5414H3808H2233H1121H1004H3423

4Then he heard the LORD speaking to him again: "This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir."H1697H3068H559H3423H3318H4578H3423

5The LORD took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that."H3318H2351H559H5027H8064H5608H3556H3201H5608H559H3541H2233

6Abram put his trust in the LORD, and because of this the LORD was pleased with him and accepted him.H539H3068H2803H6666

7Then the LORD said to him, "I am the LORD, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."H559H3068H3318H218H3778H5414H776H3423

8But Abram asked, "Sovereign LORD, how can I know that it will be mine?"H559H136H3069H4100H3045H3423

9He answered, "Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon."H559H3947H5697H8027H5795H8027H352H8027H8449H1469

10Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.H3947H1334H8432H5414H376H1335H7125H7453H6833H1334

11Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.H5861H3381H6297H87H5380

12When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.H8121H935H8639H5307H87H367H1419H2825H5307

13The LORD said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.H559H87H3045H3045H2233H1616H776H5647H6031H702H3967H8141

14But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them.H1471H5647H1777H310H3651H3318H1419H7399

15You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.H935H1H7965H6912H2896H7872

16It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished."H7243H1755H2008H7725H5771H567H2008H8003

17When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.H8121H935H5939H6227H8574H784H3940H5674H996H1506

18Then and there the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,H1931H3117H3068H3772H1285H87H559H2233H5414H776H5104H4714H1419H5104H5104H6578

19including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,H7017H7074H6935

20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,H2850H6522H7497

21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."H567H3669H1622H2983