I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
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I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
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And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
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And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.
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Passages linked to Exodus 6:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 28:4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
- Genesis 15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 17:7-8 I 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. I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
- Genesis 26:3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
- Isaiah 55:3 Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Acts 7:5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.
- Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- Genesis 15:13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- Genesis 17:4 “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
- Genesis 17:13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 23:4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
- Genesis 28:13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
- 2 Samuel 23:5 Isn’t my house 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.
- Psalms 105:12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 6:4 And I have also established my covenant…
Exo 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Ver. 4. To give them the land of Canaan.] And a better thing with it, the kingdom of heaven. {Heb 11:10; Heb 11:16}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I have also heard the groaning of the…
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,.... For the Lord is not only the eternal and immutable Being in his purposes and promises, and a covenant keeping God; but he is compassionate and merciful, and sympathizes with his people in all their afflictions; he takes notice of their sighs and groans, as he now did those of his people in Egypt:
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and which was the reason of their groaning; their bondage being so hard and rigorous, in which they were detained by Pharaoh, who refused to let them go, though Moses in the name of the Lord had required him to do it:
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and I have remembered my covenant; concerning bringing them out of Egypt into the land of Canaan, which he would quickly do, and thereby make it appear he was mindful of his covenant, which is indeed never forgotten by him, though it may seem to be.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. I have also established my covenant] I…
Verse 4. I have also established my covenant] I have now fully purposed to give present effect to all my engagements with your fathers, in behalf of their posterity.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. I also established] without ‘have,’ the reference being…
4. I also established] without ‘have,’ the reference being to Gen_17:7. Established means ‘set up,’ ‘concluded,’ not ‘gave effect to’: to ‘establish a covenant’ is a standing expression in P, Gen_6:18; Gen_9:9; Gen_9:11; Gen_9:17; Gen_17:7; Gen_17:19; Gen_17:21 (elsewhere, in the same sense, only Eze_16:60; Eze_16:62). P never uses the ordinary Heb. expression, ‘cut a covenant’ (Exo_23:32, Exo_24:8, Exo_34:19, &c.).
my covenant] The covenant concluded with Abraham in Gen_17:1-2; Gen_17:7-8 (P) that, if Abraham walked blamelessly before God, He would multiply him, be a God to him and his seed after him, and give to his descendants the land of their sojournings, Canaan (cf. Gen_28:4; Gen_35:12,—both also P).
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the land of their sojournings] Gen_17:8; Gen_23:4; also Gen_36:7; Gen_37:1 (all P), Gen 20:38†.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) My covenant.—See Gen_15:18-21; Gen_17:7-8; Gen_26:3-4; Gen_35:12. &c.
(4) My covenant.—See Gen_15:18-21; Gen_17:7-8; Gen_26:3-4; Gen_35:12. &c.
The land of Canaan.—Canaan proper was the tract between Sidon and Gaza (Gen_10:19), which is now counted as “Palestine “; but the region promised to Abraham, and included in a larger sense of the word “Canaan,” was very much more extensive, reaching as it did from the Nile to the Euphrates (Gen_15:18). This vast territory was actually possessed by Israel under David and Solomon (1Ki_4:21-24).
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The land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.—Heb., The land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. (Comp. Gen_17:8; Gen_23:4; Gen_28:4.) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were occupants of Canaan merely by sufferance: they were allowed to dwell in it because it was not half peopled; but the ownership was recognised as belonging to the Canaanite nations, Hittites and others (Gen_20:15; Gen_23:3-20, &c).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I have established my covenant with them. Compare Gen_15:18-21…
I have established my covenant with them. Compare Gen_15:18-21 Gen_17:7, 8 26:3 28:13. The land of Canaan, in a narrow acceptation, reached "from Sidon unto Gaza"; (Gen_10:19) in a wider sense it included the whole tract between "the river of Egypt (Wady-el-Arish) and the great river, the river Euphrates". (Gen_15:18) It was this larger tract which was promised by God to Abraham. The land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. Literally, "the land of their sojourns wherein they sojourned." (So Kalisch.) It was by permission of the lords of the soil the Canaaaites, Perizzites, Hittites, and others, that Abraham and his descendants dwelt in Canaan to the time of Jacob"s descent into Egypt. (see Gen_12:6 Gen_13:7 Gen_23:7 Gen_27:46, etc.)
Vers. 4-8. God a keeper of covenants.
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God is declared in Scripture to be one who "keepeth covenant and mercy, yea, to a thousand generations". (Deu_7:9) He is ever faithful. He cannot lie. He is not a man that he should repent. The bow which he set in the cloud, when he covenanted with Noah that the waters should no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, is still there, and the promise of which it was the sign has been kept there has come no repetition of the Flood, no second destruction of mankind by water. God has kept the covenant which he made with Israel at Sinai first, on the side of promise, in giving them all the good things which he said he would give them; and then, on the side of threatening, in bringing upon them all the calamities which he said he would bring. With Christians, too, God enters into covenant at their baptism, promising them protection, spiritual aid, and eternal life in heaven, on their maintaining faith and repentance. This covenant, like his others, he will assuredly keep. Let them be but true to him, and they need have no fear but that he will be true to them. The Promised Land will be theirs he will give it to them for an heritage he, Jehovah!
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain I have also established My covenant with them.
Exo_6:4-5
I have also established My covenant with them.
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A true pattern of gospel redemption
I. That gospel redemption comes to the soul after a period of moral bondage and distress.
1. It finds the soul in a condition of moral bondage. Whom the Egyptians keep in bondage. It is the bondage of sin. It has been long continued, through many years of our lives. It has been degrading. It has been fruitless to ourselves. Almost hopeless.
2. It finds the soul in a condition of anxious grief. I have also heard the groaning, etc. Tears of repentance. Cries for pardon.
3. It is generally preceded by some Christian agency. Aim of ministry to awaken desire for moral freedom.
II. That gospel redemption comes to the soul by virtue of a Divine covenant and promise. I have remembered, etc.
1. God through Christ has made a covenant of salvation with all who trust in the atonement.
2. By virtue of this covenant, all contrite and believing souls may find rest in and pardon from God.
3. This covenant is--
(1) Unique.
(2) Merciful.
(3) Of long standing.
III. That gospel redemption brings the soul into holy and responsible relationship to God. And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God (Exo_6:7).
1. It constitutes the soul a Divine possession
2. It places the soul under the peculiar guardianship of the Infinite.
IV. That gospel redemption leads the faithful into the inheritance of Canaan. What a change! All things are yours. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
Reasons for human redemption
I. The burden of man is a reason for human redemption. No human hand, but Christ alone, can remove it.
II. The Lordship of Christ is a reason for human redemption. He only could fulfil violated law; forgive past neglect; and enable us to keep it in future.
III. The covenant of God is a reason for human redemption. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
Gods covenant to His people
1. Stated.
2. Settled.
3. Kept.
4. Happy.
5. Restful.
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