In return, God promised to give Abraham and his wife Sarah the child they both longed for, and to name their descendants as his chosen people. Abraham agreed that he and his descendants would obey ...

Israel was named after Abraham's grandson and is often referred to as the promised land because the belief is that God promised to give the land to the descendants of Abraham. The second part of ...

3:13). Two other promises were made to Abraham that called for the exercise of faith. God told him that he would make him a great nation. (13:16): “I will make your descendants as the dust of ...

In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, God gives a promise to Abraham’s second ... uniquely peaceful among the generations of Abraham’s descendants according to the biblical telling.