Genesis 15:12-16

God's Covenant with Abram

¹² As the sun was going down, a _p deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain _q that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and _r they will be afflicted for _s four hundred years. ¹⁴ But _t I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward _u they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; _v you shall be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for _w the iniquity of the Amorites _x is not yet complete."

1. Cross References
   Genesis 2:21
   So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 7:6 - 7
   And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 1:11 - 12
   Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
   Exodus 3:7
   Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 7:6
   And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
   Exodus 12:40 - 41
   The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
   Galatians 3:17
   This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
   
5. Cross References
   Exodus 6:6
   Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 12:36
   And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
   Psalms 105:37
   Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
   
7. Cross References
   Genesis 25:8
   Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Kings 21:26
   He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
   Amos 2:9
   Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
   
9. Cross References
   Daniel 8:23
   And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
   Matthew 23:32
   Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
   1 Thessalonians 2:16
   By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!