“When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,”
Hebrews 6:13
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Connection with God's covenant with Abram
In Genesis 15 Abram asked how he could know God's promise would come true, and he was left out of the covenant ceremony altogether, so the promise rested on God's side alone. This verse says God swore by Himself, because there was no one greater to swear by.
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In Genesis 22:16 God swore His promise to Abraham. It is the first time Genesis records God swearing, and with no one higher to call as witness, He swore by Himself.
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Hebrews looks back to the oath God swore to Abraham after the mountain in Moriah: "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD" (Genesis 22:16). Hebrews reads that oath as written for us, so that "we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged" (Hebrews 6:18).
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