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Verse Genesis 17:8. _EVERLASTING POSSESSION_] Here עולם _olam_
appears to be used in its _accommodated_ meaning, and signifies the
completion of the Divine counsel in reference to a particular period...
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- The Sealing of the Covenant
1. שׁדי _shaday_, Shaddai, “Irresistible, able to destroy, and
by inference to make, Almighty.” שׁדד _shādad_ “be strong,
destroy.” This name is found six times in Gene...
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CHAPTER 17 THE FIFTH COMMUNICATION AND THE COVENANT REPEATED
_ 1. The communication and Abram worships (Genesis 17:1)_
2. The enlarged promise (Genesis 17:4)
3. The covenant sign (Genesis 17:9)
4....
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GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section
the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong
reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
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LAND... STRANGER. Hebrew. _land of thy sojourning!_...
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_the land of thy sojournings_ This is explained to be "all the land of
Canaan." The word "sojournings" denotes "residences of a stranger"
(cf. Genesis 15:13). The stranger (_gêr_) has no fixed possess...
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I WILL BE THEIR GOD— The spiritual and temporal covenant are blended
together, and with propriety, as the latter was eminently typical of
the former. The Scripture covenant with _Abraham,_ and all his...
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PART THIRTY
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM: THE OLD COVENANT
(Genesis 17:1-27)
1. _Synopsis of Chapter Seventeen_
Again thirteen years rolled away, and still the Promise was not
fulfilled. But when hope might...
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_AND I WILL GIVE UNTO THEE, AND TO THY SEED AFTER THEE, THE LAND
WHEREIN THOU ART A STRANGER, ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN, FOR AN
EVERLASTING POSSESSION; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD._
I will give ... the land...
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THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION
This chapter is from the Priestly document, of which it shows marked
characteristics: see preface to Genesis 15....
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 17
GOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH ABRAHAM
V1 When Abram was 99 years of age, the *Lord appeared to him. The
*Lord said to him, ‘I am God who can do...
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וְ נָתַתִּ֣י לְ֠ךָ וּ לְ זַרְעֲךָ֨
אַחֲרֶ֜יךָ
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THE COVENANT SEALED
Genesis 17:1
ACCORDING to the dates here given fourteen years had passed since
Abram had received any intimation of God's will regarding him. Since
the covenant had been made some...
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GOD'S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Genesis 17:1
At least thirteen years had passed since the promise of Isaac was
first made. Years of sorrow and discipline, but God had not forgotten.
Always under such cir...
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This chapter gives the account of the fifth appearance of God to Abram
in which a divine covenant was made. At this point his name was
changed from Abram, which means exalted father, to Abraham, which...
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CIRCUMCISION AND THE PROMISE
The act of circumcision was a part of the covenant which included the
land promise (17:1-14). It should be noted the giving of the land was
unconditional, but retaining it...
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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart,
Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall
Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
It is profitable to o...
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We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the
trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine
mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
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In chapter 17 we have a fresh revelation of the Lord to Abram, and, I
think, are upon higher and holier ground. It is not here calling, or
worship, or the world and victory over it in Lot (12-14 [1]),...
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AND I WILL GIVE UNTO THEE, AND TO THY SEED AFTER THEE,.... To him in
right, and to them in possession, and for an inheritance:
THE LAND WHEREIN THOU ART A STRANGER; or "the land of sojournings" or
"p...
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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Ver. 8. _All the land of C...
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_And I will give thee Canaan for an everlasting possession_ As a type
of heaven, that everlasting rest which remains for the people of God.
This is that _better country_ to which Abraham had an eye, a...
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[ABRAHAM.]
1 God reneweth the Couenant.
5 Abram his name is changed, in token of a greater blessing.
10 Circumcision is instituted.
15 Sarai her name is changed, and she blessed.
17 Izsaac is pro...
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SIXTH SECTION
_Abram and the repeated Promise of God. The name Abram changed to
Abraham. The personal Covenant of Faith, now a Covenant Institution
for him, his Household and his Seed. Circumcision....
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THE COVENANT AND ITS SIGN - CIRCUMCISION
Another thirteen years passes before the Lord's appearing to Abram now
at the age of 99 years. In Chapter 15:1 He had told Abram, "I am your
shield, your excee...
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WHEREIN THOU ART A STRANGER:
_ Heb._ of thy sojournings...
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7-14 The covenant of grace is from everlasting in the counsels of it,
and to everlasting in the consequences of it. The token of the
covenant was circumcision. It is here said to be the covenant whic...
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AND TO THY SEED; unto thee, not in thy own person, but in thy seed.
See GENESIS 13:15,17. FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION; upon condition of
their obedience to God, as is oft expressed; wherein seeing t...
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Here we have God's remedy for Abraham's failure set before us." And
when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared unto
Abram, and said unto him, I am the _ Almighty God:_ walk before _ m...
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Genesis 17:8 give H5414 (H8804) descendants H2233 you H310 land H776
stranger H4033 land H776 Canaan H3667 everlasting...
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Genesis 17:4
‘And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him saying, “As
for me, behold my covenant is with you and you will be the father of a
multitude of nations”.'
The presence of Yahweh is...
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CONTENTS: The revelation of God. Abram's name changed. Covenant
confirmed. Circumcision established. Promise of Isaac.
CHARACTERS: God, Abram, Isaac, Sarah, Ishmael.
CONCLUSION: When man is in the d...
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Genesis 17:1. _The Almighty God._ The original word Shaddai is often
rendered, All-sufficient. He is so called because he sheds down
blessings as the rain.
Genesis 17:2. _My covenant;_ so called becau...
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_I will establish My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after
thee_
THE FAITHFUL COVENANTER
The communion and fellowship of man with God, was first founded on a
covenant of works made with A...
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_My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations_
THE SECOND STAGE OF THE COVENANT
Already Jehovah, the Covenant God, had appeared thrice to Abram.
1. Simply to assure him that...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 17:1 Thirteen years after the birth of
Ishmael, the Lord appears to Abram and announces that he will
establish an eternal covenant with Abram and his offspring. Abram will
beco...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 17:3. God talked with him.] “We must notice here the
expression _Elohim_, and the _Dabbar_ (word). God, as the Author of
the universe, begins a conversation with Abram, when...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 17:1
AND WHEN ABRAM WAS NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE—consequently an
interval of thirteen years had elapsed since the birth of Ishmael; the
long delay on the part of God being probabl...
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Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old (Genesis 17:1),
So this is another thirteen years later.
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am Almighty God
(Genesis 17:1);
El Shaddai. So her...
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And I. Genesis 12:7 Genesis 13:15 Genesis 13:17 Genesis 15:7 Psalms 10
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ABRAM AND SARAI GREATLY ENLARGED
Genesis 17:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have passed by the sixteenth chapter of Genesis, it behooves us,
therefore, to give some striking suggestions relative to Sarai a...
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And I will give thee Canaan for an everlasting possession — God had
before promised this land to Abraham and his seed, Genesis 15:18. But
here, it is promised for an everlasting possession, as a type...