AMP ▾Genesis ▾15 ▾Genesis 151After these things the word of the L ord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; Your reward [for obedience] shall be very great.”2Abram said, “Lord G od , what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”3And Abram continued, “Since You have given no child to me, one (a servant) born in my house is my heir.”4Then behold, the word of the L ord came to him, saying, “This man [Eliezer] will not be your heir but he who shall come from your own body shall be your heir.”5And the L ord brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So [numerous] shall your descendants be.” [Heb 11:12]6Then Abram believed in (affirmed, trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the L ord ; and He counted (credited) it to him as righteousness (doing right in regard to God and man). [Rom 4:3, 18-22; Gal 3:6; James 2:23]7And He said to him, “I am the [same] L ord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance.”8But Abram said, “Lord G od , by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?”9So God said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”10So Abram brought all these to Him and cut them down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.11The birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.12When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.13God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. [Ex 12:40]14But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions. [Ex 12:35, 36; Acts 7:6, 7]15As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.16Then in the fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete (finished).” [Josh 24:15]17When the sun had gone down and a [deep] darkness had come, there appeared a smoking brazier and a flaming torch which passed between the [divided] pieces [of the animals]. [Jer 34:18, 19]18On the same day the L ord made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—19[the land of] the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites20and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim,21the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”Genesis 14Genesis 16