And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Parallel translations
- WEB He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
- KJV And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
- BSB He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
- NASB He also confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
- NLT He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, and to the people of Israel as a never-ending covenant:
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Quick answer
God confirmed the promise to Jacob and to Israel as an everlasting covenant. The covenant is permanent and divinely guaranteed.
Overview
The promise passed from Abraham and Isaac to Jacob, established as a lasting statute for the nation. Calling it everlasting underscores that God's commitment does not waver. This perpetual covenant anticipates its fulfillment in the eternal salvation God grants His people through Jesus Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Gen 35:11–12God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
- Gen 17:7–8I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- Exod 3:17and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
- Jer 11:2“Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
- 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- Josh 24:11–13“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
- Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Ps 78:10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
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