Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;'
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
Hebrews — The NT's most sustained Old-Testament argument — an extended demonstration that Jesus is ‘better than’ every institution Judaism knew. Priesthood, covenant, tabernacle, sacrifice: all fulfilled in one great high priest.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
315. – Then (v. 14) he shows the manner in which the promise was made. As if to say: Do not believe me, unless I bless you. A blessing refers to bestowing benefits: 'The blessing of the Lord makes men rich' (Pr. 10:22); I will …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Hebrews, 1274patristic
Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee,.... Which is expressive of the certainty of the blessings; the reality and substantiality of them; the abundance of them, and the continuance of the same: and of this nature are all spiritual blessings; as to be chosen of God; to have God to be a covenant God and Father; to be justified, pardoned, adopted, and sanctified, and so have a right and title to eternal happiness: and multiplying I will multiply thee; meaning both in his natural and spiritual seed, which has had its accomplishment.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee - I will continue to bless thee. Multiplying I will multiply thee - I will continue to increase thy posterity. In the most literal manner God continues to fulfill this promise; genuine Christians are Abrahams seed, and God is increasing their number daily. See the notes on Gen 22:12-18 (note); and Gen 23:1 (note).
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The verses this one reaches10
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
The walk8
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.
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Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
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And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
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Genesis 17:2I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
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“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
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Deuteronomy 1:10The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
leads to
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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