Bible Strands
Genesis 15:7
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Abram immediately after crediting his faith as righteousness, prior to Abram’s inquiry about how he will possess the territory.
The words — אֲנִי יְהוָה (a.Ni Yah.weh) translates literally as “I [am] Yahweh,” and הוֹצֵאתִיךָ (ho.tze.Ti.kha) means “I brought you out.”
The thread — The declaration recalls the initial command to depart Ur of the Chaldeans (Genesis 12:1), aligns with Stephen’s historical recounting (Acts 7:2), and reinforces the enduring land grant (Genesis 13:15).
Why it lands — The text records God identifying Himself as the deliverer who commands the possession of the land, requiring the reader to acknowledge the promise as founded on divine action rather than human achievement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Cross-references
- Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Acts 7:2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Genesis 13:15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- 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 105:42 For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
- Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
- 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.
- Psalms 105:11 “I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
- Genesis 11:28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.