Sons and Heirs Through Christ

4 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

²³ But he who was of the bondwoman ^(A)was born according to the flesh, ^(B)and he of the freewoman through promise,

²⁹ But, as ^(A)he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, ^(B)even so it is now.

² So Abraham said ^(A)to the oldest servant of his house, who ^(B)ruled over all that he had, “Please, ^(C)put your hand under my thigh, ³ and I will make you ^(D)swear^[a] by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that ^(E)you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

¹² And he brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, and gave him the ^(A)Testimony;^[a] they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, ^(B)“Long live the king!”

Ahab’s Seventy Sons Killed

10 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of ^[a]Jezreel, to the elders, and to ^[b]those who reared Ahab’s sons, saying:

² Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the days in which ^(A)Jehoiada the priest instructed him.