THEOSIS1 Chronicles 16:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ לְיַעֲקֹב֙ לְחֹ֔ק לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 35:11And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
- Gen 35:12And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Jer 11:2Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
- 2 Sam 23:5Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.
- Heb 13:20And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,
- Ex 3:17And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- Isa 55:3Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.
- Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.