Genesis 17:2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."

English Standard Version
that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”

New American Standard Bible
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."

King James Bible
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly."

International Standard Version
I'll establish my covenant between me and you, and I'll greatly increase your numbers."

American Standard Version
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

Young's Literal Translation
and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

Cross References

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Genesis 13:16
And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered.

Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your seed be.

Genesis 15:18
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;

2 Kings 13:23
And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

1 Chronicles 16:16
Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath to Isaac;

Psalm 25:14
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

Psalm 105:9
Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 17

Ge 17:1-27. Renewal of the Covenant.

1. Abram … ninety years old and nine—thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael [Ge 16:16]. During that interval he had enjoyed the comforts of communion with God but had been favored with no special revelation as formerly, probably on account of his hasty and blameable marriage with Hagar.

the Lord appeared—some visible manifestation of the divine presence, probably the Shekinah or radiant glory of overpowering effulgence.

I am the Almighty God—the name by which He made Himself known to the patriarchs (Ex 6:3), designed to convey the sense of "all-sufficient" (Ps 16:5, 6; 73:25).

walk … and … perfect—upright, or sincere (Ps 51:6) in heart, speech, and behavior.