Exodus 2:24
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24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(A)
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Genesis 26:3
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3 Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.(A)
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Psalm 105:42
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42 For he remembered his holy promise
and Abraham, his servant.(A)
Exodus 6:5
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5 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have remembered my covenant.(A)
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Psalm 106:45
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45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(A)
Psalm 102:20
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20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die,(A)
Psalm 22:24
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24 For he did not despise or abhor
the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me[a]
but heard when I[b] cried to him.(A)
Genesis 15:14-18
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14 but I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.(A) 15 As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.(B) 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”(C)
17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.(D) 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(E)
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Luke 1:72-73
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72 Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors
and has remembered his holy covenant,(A)
73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham,
to grant us
Psalm 138:3
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- 138.3 Syr Compare Gk Tg: Heb you made me arrogant in my soul with strength
Genesis 26:24
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24 And that very night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you and make your offspring numerous for my servant Abraham’s sake.”(A)
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Psalm 105:6-13
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6 O offspring of his servant Abraham,[a]
children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God;
his judgments are in all the earth.(A)
8 He is mindful of his covenant forever,
of the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
9 the covenant that he made with Abraham,
his sworn promise to Isaac,(B)
10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,(C)
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your portion for an inheritance.”(D)
12 When they were few in number,
of little account and strangers in it,(E)
13 wandering from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people,
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- 105.6 Or Israel
Psalm 22:5
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5 To you they cried and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.(A)
Judges 2:18
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18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the Lord would be moved to pity by their groaning because of those who persecuted and oppressed them.
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Genesis 46:2-4
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2 God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”(A) 3 Then he said, “I am God,[a] the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.(B) 4 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.”(C)
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- 46.3 Heb the God
Genesis 18:18
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18 seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?[a](A)
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- 18.18 Or and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him
Genesis 17:7
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A)
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Psalm 79:11
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11 Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die.(A)
Nehemiah 9:27-28
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27 Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their suffering they cried out to you, and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hands of their enemies. 28 But after they had rest, they again did evil before you, and you abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them, yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you rescued them according to your mercies.
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Genesis 28:12-14
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12 And he dreamed that there was a stairway[a] set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.(A) 13 And the Lord stood beside him[b] and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,(B) 14 and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed[c] in you and in your offspring.(C)
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Genesis 32:28
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28 Then the man[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[b] for you have striven with God and with humans[c] and have prevailed.”(A)
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Nehemiah 9:8-9
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8 and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.(A)
9 “And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](B)
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- 9.9 Or Sea of Reeds
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