And Abram said, (a) Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus? (a) His fear was not only lest he should not have children, but lest the promise of the blessed seed should not be accomplished in him.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Lord GOD, (b) whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? (b) This is a particular motion of God's Spirit, which is not lawful for all to follow, in asking signs: but was permitted for some by a peculiar motion, as to Gideon and Ezekiel.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he took unto him all these, and (c) divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. (c) This was the old custom in making covenants, (Jeremiah 39:18), to which God added these conditions, that Abram's posterity would be as torn in pieces, but af... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them (d) four hundred years; (d) Counting from the birth of Isaac to their departure of Egypt: Which declares that God will allow his to be afflict... [ Continue Reading ]
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the (e) iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full. (e) Though God tolerates the wicked for a time, yet his vengeance falls on them when the measure of their wickedness is full.... [ Continue Reading ]