Bible Cross References
he gave
Genesis 23:4
"I am a foreigner living here among you; sell me some land, so that I can bury my wife."
Psalm 105:11
"I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."
Psalm 105:12
God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.
Hebrews 11:10
For Abraham was waiting for the city which God has designed and built, the city with permanent foundations.
Hebrews 11:13-16
13
It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth.
14
Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.
15
They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.
16
Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
not
Deuteronomy 2:5
but you must not start a war with them, because I am not going to give you so much as a square foot of their land. I have given Edom to Esau's descendants.
yet
Genesis 12:7
The LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15
I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.
Genesis 15:3
You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."
Genesis 15:18
Then 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,
Genesis 17:8
I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."
Genesis 26:3
Live here, and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.
Genesis 28:13-15
13
And there was the LORD standing beside him. "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham and Isaac," he said. "I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.
14
They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.
15
Remember, I will be with you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you."
Exodus 6:7
I will make you my own people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the LORD your God when I set you free from slavery in Egypt.
Exodus 6:8
I will bring you to the land that I solemnly promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as your own possession. I am the LORD.' "
Deuteronomy 6:10
"Just as the LORD your God promised your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he will give you a land with large and prosperous cities which you did not build.
Deuteronomy 6:11
The houses will be full of good things which you did not put in them, and there will be wells that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. When the LORD brings you into this land and you have all you want to eat,
Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because you are good and do what is right that the LORD is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 10:11
Then he told me to go and lead you, so that you could take possession of the land that he had promised to give to your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 11:9
And you will live a long time in the rich and fertile land that the LORD promised to give your ancestors and their descendants.
Deuteronomy 34:4
Then the LORD said to Moses, "This is the land that I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob I would give to their descendants. I have let you see it, but I will not let you go there."
Nehemiah 9:8
You found that he was faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him. You promised to give him the land of the Canaanites, the land of the Hittites and the Amorites, the land of the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Girgashites, to be a land where his descendants would live. You kept your promise, because you are faithful.
Psalm 105:8-11
8
He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.
9
He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.
10
The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.
11
"I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."
when
Genesis 15:2-5
2
But Abram answered, "Sovereign LORD, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.
3
You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."
4
Then he heard the LORD speaking to him again: "This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir."
5
The LORD took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that."
Genesis 16:2
and so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.
Genesis 17:16-19
16
I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants."
17
Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"
18
He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?"
19
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.