Genesis 26:2

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The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in the land that I will show you.

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  • Gen 12:1 : 1 The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before Me faithfully and be blameless."
  • Gen 18:1 : 1 The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre as he was sitting at the entrance of the tent during the heat of the day.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in the LORD and do what is good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
  • Gen 18:10-20 : 10 Then one of them said, 'I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.' Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well along in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, 'After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?' 13 Then the LORD said to Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh, saying, “Can I really bear a child when I am old?”' 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time next year, I will return to you, and Sarah will have a son. 15 But Sarah denied it, saying, 'I did not laugh,' because she was afraid. But He replied, 'No, you did laugh.' 16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked with them to see them off. 17 Then the LORD said, 'Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?' 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all nations of the earth will be blessed. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him. 20 Then the LORD said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave.

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    83%

    24That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."

    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Gen 26:3
    83%

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father.

  • Gen 28:13
    80%

    13And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.'

  • Gen 26:1
    79%

    1Now there was a famine in the land, apart from the earlier famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

  • Gen 46:2-3
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    78%

    2God spoke to Israel in visions during the night, calling, 'Jacob, Jacob!' And he replied, 'Here I am.'

    3God said, 'I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.'

  • Gen 26:6
    77%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."

  • Acts 7:3
    76%

    3'He said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.'

  • Gen 26:16-17
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    75%

    16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us, for you have become much mightier than we are."

    17So Isaac departed from there, pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

  • Gen 28:15
    75%

    15Look, I am with you, and I will guard you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, because I will not leave you until I have done everything I promised you.

  • Gen 28:4
    75%

    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 31:13
    75%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

  • Gen 12:7
    74%

    7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

  • Gen 31:3
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    3Then the LORD said to Jacob, 'Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.'

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    3But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 24:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 24:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.

    7The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.

  • Gen 35:12
    73%

    12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.

  • Gen 28:1-2
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    1Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, saying, 'Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

    2Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 32:9
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    9He thought, 'If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp that is left will escape.'

  • Gen 15:7
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    7And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

  • Gen 35:1
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    1God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

  • Exod 3:16
    73%

    16Go, assemble the elders of Israel, and tell them, 'The LORD, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: "I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt."

  • Gen 27:39
    73%

    39His father Isaac answered him, 'Your dwelling will be away from the richness of the earth and away from the dew of heaven above.'

  • Deut 34:4
    73%

    4Then the Lord said to him, 'This is the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross over into it.'

  • Gen 17:19
    73%

    19Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

  • Gen 24:62
    72%

    62Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.