Genesis 15:2 - Prayer Tents

The Lord’s Covenant With Abram

15After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."H310H1697H1697H3068H1961H87H4236H559H3372H87H4043H3966H7235H79392But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"H87H559H136H3069H5414H1980H6185H1121H4943H1004H1931H461H18343And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."H87H559H5414H3808H2233H1121H1004H34234Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."H1697H3068H559H3423H3318H4578H34235He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."H3318H2351H559H5027H8064H5608H3556H3201H5608H559H3541H22336Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.H539H3068H2803H66667He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."H559H3068H3318H218H3778H5414H776H34238But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"H559H136H3069H4100H3045H34239So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."H559H3947H5697H8027H5795H8027H352H8027H8449H146910Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.H3947H1334H8432H5414H376H1335H7125H7453H6833H133411Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.H5861H3381H6297H87H538012As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.H8121H935H8639H5307H87H367H1419H2825H530713Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.H559H87H3045H3045H2233H1616H776H5647H6031H702H3967H814114But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.H1471H5647H1777H310H3651H3318H1419H739915You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.H935H1H7965H6912H2896H787216In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."H7243H1755H2008H7725H5771H567H2008H800317When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.H8121H935H5939H6227H8574H784H3940H5674H996H150618On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—H1931H3117H3068H3772H1285H87H559H2233H5414H776H5104H4714H1419H5104H5104H657819the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,H7017H7074H693520Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,H2850H6522H749721Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."H567H3669H1622H2983