Genesis 17:6
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New International Version (©2011)
I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!

English Standard Version (©2001)
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'm going to cause you to have many descendants, and I'll bring nations from you. Kings will come from you.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will give you many descendants. Many nations and kings will come from you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.

American King James Version
And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.

American Standard Version
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

English Revised Version
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall proceed from thee.

World English Bible
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

Young's Literal Translation
and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-6 The covenant was to be accomplished in due time. The promised Seed was Christ, and Christians in him. And all who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abram, being partakers of the same covenant blessings. In token of this covenant his name was changed from Abram, a high father, to Abraham, the father of a multitude. All that the Christian world enjoys, it is indebted for to Abraham and his Seed.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, - a promise fulfilled in the Ishmaelites, the descendants of Keturah, the Edomites, and the Israelites - and kings (e.g. David and Solomon) shall come out of thee.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful,.... In children, for he had not only a son by Sarai, from whom sprung a numerous offspring, but he had six sons by Keturah, who became the heads of large nations:

and I will make nations of thee; as the nations of Israel and Judah, of the Midianites and Edomites, of the Arabs, Saracens, and Turks:

and kings shall come out of thee; as the twelve princes of Ishmael, the kings of Edom and Midian, of the Arabs, Saracens, and Turks, and of Israel and Judah, and especially, as observed by Grotius, and others, the King Messiah: to which may be added, in a mystical sense, all Christian kings and princes of the same faith with him; nay, all believers, who are all kings and priests unto God.

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Abram Named Abraham
…5Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you. 6And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. 7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you, and to your seed after you.

Genesis 17:16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
Genesis 26:22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, "Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land."
Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
Genesis 35:11 And God said to him, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
Genesis 36:31 These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:
Genesis 41:52 The second son he named Ephraim and said, "It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."
Genesis 47:27 Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.
Leviticus 26:9 "'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.