Quotes About Promise

Then I asked her, ëWhose daughter are you?í She replied, ëThe daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.í So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your masterís son, just as the LORD has decreed.”

Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.

After Abrahamís death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

This is the account of Abrahamís son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

so that I may return safely to my fatherís house, then the LORD will be my God.

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be Godís house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Finish this weekís celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.