Bible Strands
Genesis 26:5
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Isaac in Gerar, explaining the condition for the covenant promises detailed in Genesis 26:4.
The words — שָמַ֥ע (sha.Ma') = he listened, and וַ/יִּשְׁמֹר (va/i.yish.Mor) = and he kept.
The thread — Genesis 22:18 directly connects the nations' blessing to Abraham obeying God's voice, and Matthew 7:24 describes a person who hears words and acts on them.
Why it lands — The text lists Abraham's specific actions of listening and keeping divine instructions, requiring the reader to accept obedience as the explicit ground for the promised blessing.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Cross-references
- Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- Genesis 22:16 saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
- Psalms 112:1 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- James 2:21 Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
- Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Psalms 128:1 A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
- Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.
- Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”