1 Chronicles 1:28 BSB

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4 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵי֙	be.Nei	[the] sons of	H1121 →
אַבְרָהָ֔ם	'av.ra.Ham	Abraham	H85 →
יִצְחָ֖ק	yitz.Chak	Isaac	H3327 →
וְיִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ ס	ve.yish.ma.'El	and Ishmael	H3458 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:18
  even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- Romans 9:7–8
  Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- Genesis 17:19
  But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after…
- 1 Samuel 8:7
  And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as…
- 1 Samuel 8:9
  Now listen to them, but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 21:2–5So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Genesis 21:12But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.Genesis 21:9–10But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Genesis 16:11–16The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.Genesis 17:19–21But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.1 Chronicles 1:34Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.Genesis 16:15And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.Matthew 1:2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

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