Genesis 15:2 - Prayer Tents

15After all these things, this word of GOD came to Abram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Abram. I'm your shield. Your reward will be grand!"H310H1697H1697H3068H1961H87H4236H559H3372H87H4043H3966H7235H7939 2Abram said, "GOD, Master, what use are your gifts as long as I'm childless and Eliezer of Damascus is going to inherit everything?"H87H559H136H3069H5414H1980H6185H1121H4943H1004H1931H461H1834 3Abram continued, "See, you've given me no children, and now a mere house servant is going to get it all."H87H559H5414H3808H2233H1121H1004H3423 4Then GOD's Message came: "Don't worry, he won't be your heir; a son from your body will be your heir."H1697H3068H559H3423H3318H4578H3423 5Then he took him outside and said, "Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You're going to have a big family, Abram!"H3318H2351H559H5027H8064H5608H3556H3201H5608H559H3541H2233 6And he believed! Believed GOD! God declared him "Set-Right-with-God."H539H3068H2803H6666 7GOD continued, "I'm the same GOD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldees and gave you this land to own."H559H3068H3318H218H3778H5414H776H3423 8Abram said, "Master GOD, how am I to know this, that it will all be mine?"H559H136H3069H4100H3045H3423 9GOD said, "Bring me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon."H559H3947H5697H8027H5795H8027H352H8027H8449H1469 10He brought all these animals to him, split them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. But he didn't split the birds.H3947H1334H8432H5414H376H1335H7125H7453H6833H1334 11Vultures swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram scared them off.H5861H3381H6297H87H5380 12As the sun went down a deep sleep overcame Abram and then a sense of dread, dark and heavy.H8121H935H8639H5307H87H367H1419H2825H5307 13GOD said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years.H559H87H3045H3045H2233H1616H776H5647H6031H702H3967H8141 14Then I'll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder.H1471H5647H1777H310H3651H3318H1419H7399 15But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death.H935H1H7965H6912H2896H7872 16Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."H7243H1755H2008H7725H5771H567H2008H8003 17When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses.H8121H935H5939H6227H8574H784H3940H5674H996H1506 18That's when GOD made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—H1931H3117H3068H3772H1285H87H559H2233H5414H776H5104H4714H1419H5104H5104H6578 19the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,H7017H7074H6935 20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,H2850H6522H7497 21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."H567H3669H1622H2983