Genesis 15:16

God's Covenant with Abram

16 "But c in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity d of the Amorites e is not yet complete."

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 15:13
    Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
    Exodus 12:41
    And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years - on that very same day - it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 48:22
    "Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."
    Leviticus 18:24 - 28
    Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
    1 Kings 21:26
    And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:12
    Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
    Matthew 23:32
    Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.
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