“Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.”
Genesis 15:13
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- How Can I Know? God Cuts a Covenant with Abram (Genesis 15)
- Cutting the Covenant: The Oath God Swore Alone (Genesis 15)
Connection with Abraham's tree at Beersheba
Abraham later planted a tree at Beersheba, the kind of thing people do where they mean to stay, and called on the Eternal God. He did this knowing what God says here: his descendants would wait four hundred years for this land, and he would be buried before then (Genesis 15:13–15).
Read the whole studyAn oath that outlives a man
At Beersheba Abraham swore an oath to Abimelech that was meant to reach their children and descendants. Here God told Abraham he would go to his fathers in peace, while his descendants waited four hundred years. An oath reaches only as far as the men who swear it, and at Beersheba Abraham called on the Eternal God, whose oath outlasts every grave.
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