Bible Strands
Genesis 13:15
for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks to Abram immediately after Lot has departed and after commanding him to look in all four directions.
The words — רֹאֶה (ro'eh), "seeing," is a present participle: the land is not a distant concept but what Abram is actively perceiving at this moment.
The thread — The promise first appears in Genesis 12:7, is formalized as a covenant with named boundaries in Genesis 15:18, and is recalled as fulfilled in 2 Chronicles 20:7.
Why it lands — The promise is anchored to what Abram can see with his own eyes, which makes "forever" a claim about a finite, visible landscape rather than an abstraction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
- Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- Genesis 15:18 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 35:12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
- Psalms 37:22 Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
- Acts 7:5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
- Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Psalms 37:29 The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
- Psalms 105:9 the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.