Quotes about Promise

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.

The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.

And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’

Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”