On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land--from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates-- Genesis 17:2, 7, 10I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly." . . . Exodus ...
Note that these are literal descendants of Israel, yet believers in Jesus from all nations are included in the designation, “people of God.” Exodus 6:7 –And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am YHVH your God, which bri...
In another article,“Treat the Bible with Respect”(26/2/2024), Stephan Joubert seeks to overturn the biblical understanding of the curses inGenesis 12:3. He suggests that the divine curses on those who curse Abraham and his physical descendants, specifically his true people, the twelve tribes...
Now it came about after the death of Joshua, that the sons (descendants) of Israel (Jacob) asked the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”Christian Standard BibleAfter the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will...
8 These are the family heads and those registered with them who came up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes: 2 of the descendants of Phinehas, Gershom; of the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel; of the descendants of David, Hattush 3 of the descendants of Shekaniah; ...
23[a]No one who has been emasculatedby crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of theLord. 2No one born of a forbidden marriage[b]nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of theLord, not even in the tenth generation. ...
25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised: 26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole ...
Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel--to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.World English BibleBut I have...
8 the descendants of Parosh 2,172 9 of Shephatiah 372 10 of Arah 652 11 of Pahath-Moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab) 2,818 12 of Elam 1,254 13 of Zattu 845 14 of Zakkai 760 15 of Binnui 648 16 of Bebai 628 17 of Azgad 2,322 18 of ...
13 “Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty. 14 “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel;the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.15 I will tear down the winter...