The Strand Study Bible

GENESIS 15:5

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came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; 1 but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. P The promise of CHRIST’S First Coming (Fulfilled - Lk 2:7,11 - 1 BC) 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, 2 and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, 3 So shall thy 4 SEED be. P Abram (84 years old) is saved Date - c. 1908 BC/AM 2092 6 5 And he believed in the 6 LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness. The promise to Israel to possess Canaan (Fulfilled - Josh 11:23 - 1441 BC) 7 And he said unto him, I am the 7 LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chal- dees, 8 to give thee this land to inherit it . P 8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: 9 but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. The promise of an Egyptian bondage (Fulfilled - From Gen 12:10 - 1917 to Exo 12:40,41 - 1487 BC) 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a

surety 10 that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, 11 and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; P The promise to destroy Egypt 14 10 And also that 12 nation, whom they shall serve, 13 will I judge: 14 and after- ward shall they come out with great sub- stance. PP The promise to Abram to have a long life (Fulfilled - Gen 25:8 - 1817 BC) 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; 15 thou shalt be buried in a good old age. P The promise to Israel to enter Canaan (Fulfilled - Josh 3:17 & 4:1 - 1447 BC) 16 But in the 16 fourth generation 17 they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. P 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. The boundaries of the Promised Land (Fulfilled - Josh 11:23 - 1441 BC) 18 In the same day the 7 LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, 8 Unto thy seed have I given this 18 land, 19 from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the riv- er Euphrates: P 19 8 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, P 20 8 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, P and to spoil the Egyptians (Fulfilled - Exo 14:28 - 1487 BC & Exo 11:2,3 & 12:35,36 - 1487 BC)

1. Fulfilled - Gen 21:1-3 (Birth of Isaac) (See - Gen 17:19 & Gal 4:28) 2. Gen 22:17 & 26:4 & Exo 32:13 &Deut 1:10 & Jere 33:22 & Heb 11:12 3. Quoted in the NT - Rom 4:18 4. Fulfilled - Lk 2:7,11 (Christ’s First Coming) 5. Quoted in the NT Rom 4:3 & Gal 3:6 & promised O.T. Messiah” Rom 10:9-13 & Jn 8:56 7. Gen 12:1-4,7 8. Fulfilled - Josh 11:23 (Promised Land) (See Acts 7:5) 9. Lev 1:14-17 10. Quoted in the NT Acts 7:6-7 11. Fulfilled - Exo 12:40,41 (Egyptian Bondage) 12. or, “Egypt” 13. Fulfilled - Exo 14:28 (Egyptians defeated) (See - Exo 6:6) 14. Fulfilled - Exo 11:2-3 & 12:35-36 (Egyptians Spoiled) 15. Fulfilled - Gen 25:8 (A Long Life) 16. or, “from Levi to Moses” 17. Fulfilled - Josh 3:17 & 4:1 (Promised Land) 18. See - Map #16 in the back of Genesis 19. Num 34:2-12 Jms 2:23 (See Psa 32:1-2 & Rom 4:9,22) 6. or, “on the

21 8 And the Amorites, and the Ca- naanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites . P 15:6 Abram may not have known every detail concerning the Gospel of CHRIST ( I Pet 1:10,12 ), but he certainly understood enough of it to be saved ( And he believed in the LORD - Jn 8:56, Rom 4:1-5, Gal 3:6-8, Heb 11:17-19 and I Cor 15:1 ). 15:10 Ancient covenants were sometimes confirmed by the halving of an animal ( and divided them in the midst ) and the two parties to the covenant passing between them ( Jere 34:18 ), thus signifying the cutting of a covenant between the two parties. Here, however, God alone passes between the animal pieces (vs 17), indicating that God Himself was undertaking the fulfillment of all the conditions attached to the covenant ( Genesis 12 Subject Head ). 15:13 According to Exodus 12:40-41 and Galatians 3:17, Israel’s Egyptian bondage of 430 years was an exact period of time. The 400 years that are mentioned here in verse 13 are therefore judged to be part of that time (Acts 7:6). NOTE - This 430 year Egyptian bondage began in Genesis 12:10. 15:15 Abraham was not only promised a long life (he lived to be 175 years old – Gen 25:7-8), he was promised to be reunited with all of his believing ancestors ( And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace ) who had died years before in Babylon. The body may be buried far away, but the soul joins the company of its forefathers (Mt 8:11). The immortality of the soul is the thought behind the phrase. 15:16 The Amorites would face extermination because they defiled the land with how they lived ( the iniquity of the Amorites - Lev 18:24-28).