Quotes about Promise
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
— Genesis 31:49
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
— Genesis 31:50
This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
— Genesis 31:52
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
— Genesis 32:9
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
— Genesis 32:12
And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
— Genesis 35:10
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
— Genesis 35:12
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
— Genesis 37:11
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
— Genesis 38:17
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
— Genesis 38:18
and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
— Genesis 42:18
Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
— Genesis 42:20