He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, and to the people of Israel as a never-ending covenant:
Parallel translations
- WEB and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
- KJV And confirmed the same unto 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:
- NKJV And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
- NASB Then He confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
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God confirmed the same covenant to Jacob as a statute and to Israel as an everlasting covenant. The promise passed faithfully through the generations.
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The covenant given to Abraham was confirmed to Jacob and established as an everlasting bond with Israel. God's promises do not lapse but are renewed and secured. This everlasting covenant reaches its fulfillment in the new covenant ratified by the blood of Christ.
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- 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.
- 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.
- Gen 28:13–15Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.
- 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,
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