Land Given to Abraham
From Eco-Bible 1
These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.
- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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This page focuses specifically on the land issue. For other aspects of the promises given to Abraham, see: Abrahamic Covenant.
Scripture Pages that Link to Here
- Gen 12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him. - The Canaanite land (occupied by the offspring of Ham/Canaan) was to be given to Abraham (the offspring of Shem). God is the one who would give it to him.
- Gen 13:15 "... all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever."
- Gen 13:17 "Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
- The extent of the land is given: Gen 15:18-21 - "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." Ten peoples are included in this list. (This total number of "ten" seems to symbolize "completeness," and is characteristic of several of the lists in Genesis.)
- The land given to Israel, because of the wickedness of the Canaanites, as well as for this reason: "that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
- Israel can't take credit for receiving the land of Canaan. It was God who did it. Besides, God did it because of promises he made to their ancestors (such as Abraham), not to them! (He also did it because of the wickedness of the nations.)
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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