Covenants
Noahic covenant
Gen 6:18 But with thee will I establish my
covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee.
Gen 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing
living, as I have done. : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Gen 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you; 10: And with every living
creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth
with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11: And I will establish my covenant with you;
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there
any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12:
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every
living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Abrahamic covenant
- land for circumcision
Gen 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly. 3: And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
4: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many
nations. 5: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6: And I will make thee exceeding
fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7: And I will
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for
an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8: And I will
give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the
land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9: And God said
unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in
their generations. 10: This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and
thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11: And ye shall
circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me
and you. 12: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child
in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger,
which is not of thy seed. 13: He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy
money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant. 14: And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is
not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Gen 12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7: And the LORD appeared unto
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:
Gen
13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that
Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art
northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16: And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
numbered. 17: Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee.
Gen
15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the
great river, the river Euphrates:
19: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20: And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims, 21: And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites.
Abraham with Abimelech
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Gen 21:27
Blessings
God
blessed the 7th day and santified it because he rested from creating creation Gen 2:3
God with Noah
I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake...neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. Gen 8:21
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Gen 8:22
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Gen 9:1
God with Adam and Eve
And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth. Gen 1:28
Noah's blessing on his sons
Gen 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall
be his servant. 27: God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;
and Canaan shall be his servant.
God with Abraham
Gen 12:2 And
I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and
thou shalt be a blessing: 3: And I will
bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all
families of the earth be blessed.
Gen 14:18 And
Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most
high God. 19: And he blessed him, and said,
Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20: And blessed be the most high God, which hath
delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Gen 22:17:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the
stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies; 18: And in
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Abraham with Abimelech
Gen 21:27 Abraham and Abimelech's(king of Gerar-Philistines) peace
covenant 27: And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of
them made a covenant.
God with Hagar
Gen 16:10 And
the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall
not be numbered for multitude. 11: And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou
art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD
hath heard thy affliction. 12: And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every
man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.
Rebekah's parents to Rebekah
Gen 24:60 And
they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of
thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them
God to Isaac
Gen 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and
unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware
unto Abraham thy father; 4: And I will make
thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these
countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5: Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept
my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Gen 26:24 And
the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father:
fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
Isaac to Jacob
Gen 27:28
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of
corn and wine: 29: Let people serve thee, and
nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to
thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Gen 28:4 And
give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest
inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Isaac to Esau
Gen 27:39
And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness
of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; 40: And by thy sword shalt thou live,
and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
God to Jacob
Gen
28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and
said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14: And thy seed shall be as the dust of
the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed.
Gen
35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and
Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Jacob to Joseph's
sons
Gen
48:19 ...his younger brother shall be greater
than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20: And he blessed them that
day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Jacob to his son Reuben
Gen 49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest
up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Jacob to his son Levi and Simeon
Gen 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in
their habitations. 6: O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly,
mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill
they digged down a wall. 7: Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for
it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Jacob to his son Judah
Gen 49:8
Judah,
thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine
enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9: Judah is a lion's whelp:
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an
old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the
people be. 11: Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he
washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12: His eyes shall be
red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Jacob to his son Zebulun
Gen
49:13 Zebulun
shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border
shall be unto Zidon.
Jacob to his son Issachar
Gen
49:14 Issachar
is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 15: And he saw that rest was good, and
the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto
tribute.
Jacob to his son Dan
Gen
49:16 Dan
shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17: Dan shall be a serpent by the
way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall
backward. 18: I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Jacob to his son Gad
Gen
49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he
shall overcome at the last.
Jacob to his son Asher
Gen
49:20 Out
of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Jacob to his son Naphtali
Gen
49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth
goodly words.
Jacob to his son Joseph
Gen
49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a
fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot
at him, and hated him:
24: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the
stone of Israel:)
25: Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep
that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 26: The blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they
shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from
his brethren.
Jacob to his son Benjamin
Gen
49:27 Benjamin
shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall
divide the spoil.
God to Israelites
Lev
25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and
keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19: And the land
shall yield her fruit, and he shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20: And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the
seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21: Then I will
command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three
years.
Lev 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
them; 4: Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase,
and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5: And your threshing shall reach unto
the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread
to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6: And I will give peace in the land, and ye
shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the
land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7: And ye shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8: And five of you shall chase an hundred,
and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before
you by the sword. 9: For I will have respect
unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10: And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the
old because of the new. 11: And I will set my
tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12:
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13: I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth
out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands
of your yoke, and made you go upright.
God to Phinehas
Num 25:12,13 12: Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him
my covenant of peace: 13: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant
of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement
for the children of Israel.
Jesus to Believers
Lk 22:20 Jesus said: This cup which is poured out for you
is the new covenant in my blood.