He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
- BSB The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- NKJV Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
- NASB And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.”
- NLT Then the Lord told him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
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Quick answer
God identified Himself as the One who brought Abram from Ur to give him the land. He grounds the land promise in His past faithfulness.
Overview
The Lord reminds Abram of His prior act of calling and leading him out of Ur, establishing His trustworthiness. This self-introduction parallels how God later identifies Himself as the One who brought Israel out of Egypt. Past deliverance becomes the basis for confidence in future promise, encouraging faith that the God who began His work will complete it.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Gen 12:1Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
- Acts 7:2–4He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Ps 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
- Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
- Neh 9:7–8You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
- Gen 13:15–17for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Rom 4:13For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Gen 12:7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
- Ps 105:11saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance”;
- Gen 11:28–31Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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