ABRAHAMIC COVENANT CHART

This is a chart that is a basic overview of Genesis 12-50. On this chart you will see a brake down of the Covenant’s references, what it is addressed to, circumstance under which it was reiterated, the “Ingredients” which compose the Covenant, where the development is in the Book of Genesis, and any change in content or emphasis..

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Reference: Addressed To: Circumstance Under Which it was Reiterated:

“Ingredients”

Which compose the Covenant:

Development in the Book of Genesis:

Any Change in Content or Emphasis:

Gen. 12:1-31 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

 2 “I will make you into a great nation,    and I will bless you; I will make your name great,    and you will be a blessing.[a] 3 I will bless those who bless you,    and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth    will be blessed through you.”[b]

Abram

God’s call for Abraham to move

from Haran to Canaan. 

Promise of Land, Great

Nation, and A Blessing

Abram received the

Blessing through a Covenant made with

God

Original Covenant

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Gen. 12:7

7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

AbramThe Canaanites were in the land.

Promise that God would give Abram

this land

Abram had just left his home and arrived in Canaan

God showed Abram the Promised

Land

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Gen. 12:17-20

17 But the LORD inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. 18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” 20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

To Pharaoh through plague

 The whole covenant

God saved Abram’s

marriage with Sarai from Pharaoh

Preservation of the

Covenant

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Gen. 13:14-17

14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[d] forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

Abram

God Encouraged Abram after Lot left, and repeated His promise of a land and a nation

Heirs should be as the dust of

the earth

Abram left his homeland and is directed by

God and is now living in

Canaan

Emphasis is on the land

and Abram’s heirs

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Gen. 14:19-20

19 and he blessed Abram, saying,

   “Blessed be Abram by God Most High,    Creator of heaven and earth. 20 And praise be to God Most High,    who delivered your enemies into your hand.”

   Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

AbramA reminder to

Abram that God had “blessed” him.

The whole covenant

God delivered to Abram’s his enemies and kept Abram

alive

Emphasis on the fact the Abram was

blessed

Gen. 15:1-6

 1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:    “Do not be afraid, Abram.

   I am your shield,[g]    your very great reward.[h]”  2 But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[i] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children;

Abram Abram thought that God would

bless him through his servant being

his heir

Heirs would be as innumerable as the stars in the heavens

Abram is encouraged while he is

waiting for an heir

Emphasis on heirs

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so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

 4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[j] be.”

 6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Gen. 15:7

 7 He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”

AbramAbram doubted how he would posses the land

The Promised Land

God brought Abram out of

Ur of Chaldeans and

promised to give him his

own land

Emphasis on the Promised

Land

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Gen. 15:12-16

12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

Abram  

Abram’s descendants in the Promised

Land

God promised that Abram’s descendants would come back into the land in the

fourth generation

Abram’s descendants would dwell in Promised

Land

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Gen. 15:17-21 Abram

God wants to show Abram that the covenant is a

unconditional covenant

God’s covenant is

unconditional

God passed through a

divided animal alone to show

that His covenant was unconditional

Emphasis on the

unconditional covenant

Gen. 16:15-17:1 Abram   Abram’s heir

God speaks through

silence for 13 years,

probably because

Abram did not trust in God’s provision for

an heir

Emphasis on Abram’s true

heir

Gen. 17:2-7 Abram/Abraham

God wants Abraham to know

that he had not forgotten His promise, even

after 13 years of silence

God renames Abram to

Abraham and reminds him of

his many descendants

God promises that Abraham

will have many

descendants and that he will be a

father of many nations

God emphasizes that he will

greatly multiply

Abraham, and that he will be the father of many nations

Gen. 17:8 AbrahamGod reminds

Abraham about the promised land

The promised land: a

everlasting possession

God reminds Abraham that he will give

his descendants

the entire land of Canaan.

God emphasizes to Abraham that Canaan will

be an everlasting inheritance

Gen. 17:10-14 Abraham

God wants Abraham and his descendants to remember the

covenant

The entire covenant

God gives Abraham and

his descendants

the sign of the covenant,

circumcision

God gives Abraham a sign of the covenant.

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Gen. 17:15-17 Abraham

God wants Abraham to know that his heir will come through Sarai/Sarah

Abraham’s promised heir

God tells Abraham that his heir will

come through his wife, and

so God changes

Sarai’s name to Sarah as proof of His blessing on

her

God places emphasis on

promised heir

Gen. 17:18-19 AbrahamAbraham does not

trust God’s promise

Abraham’s heir

Abraham doubts God and wants

Ishmael to be his heir.

However, God tells him that Isaac, Sarah’s son, will be

his heir

Emphasis on promised heir

Gen. 18:9-10 Abraham

The Lord reminds Abraham that

Sarah will have a son

Abraham’s heir

Three visitors came to

Abraham in order to find Sarah and tell her that she

would have a child in one

year.

Emphasis on promised heir

Gen. 18:12-15 Abraham/SarahThe Lord hears

Sarah laughAbraham’s heir

The Lord hears Sarah laughs and reminds her

that nothing is impossible for

God

God wants to remind Sarah that nothing is impossible for

Him

Gen. 18:16-21 Abraham  Abraham will be a mighty

nation

The Lord tells Abraham about the doom of Sodom

The Lord emphasizes

that Abraham will be a

mighty nation

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Gen. 20:3-7Abimelech

through dreamPromise was in

dangerThe entire covenant

Abimelech took Sarah to be his wife,

and God told him that he had taken

another man’s wife

Preservation of the

covenant

Gen. 21:1-8  

God proves his faithfulness to Abraham and

Sarah

The heir of Abraham

Isaac is born to Sarah and Abraham as

the Lord promised

Isaac, the heir of Abraham

Gen. 21:9-13 AbrahamIshmael mocked Isaac and desired the inheritance

The inheritance of Isaac.

God told Abraham to

listen to Sarah, and so

Abraham sent Hagar and

Ishmael away

The inheritance of

Isaac

Gen. 22:1-2 AbrahamGod wants to test Abraham’s faith

Isaac, Abraham’s heir

God wants to test

Abraham’s faith by telling

him to sacrifice Isaac

as a burnt offering

God tests Abraham’s

faith

Gen. 22:10-13 Abraham

God wants Abraham to know

that he will provide the

sacrifice

Isaac, Abraham’s heir

The Angel of the Lord calls to Abraham and tells him

not to sacrifice his son Isaac

The preservation of Isaac’s life

Gen. 22:16-18 Abraham

God sees Abraham’s faith and reaffirms His

promise to Abraham

The Promise of God

God sees that Abraham

trusted in his promise, so he reaffirms the promises of

the covenant.

God reaffirms the entire covenant

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Gen. 24:10-27Abraham’s

servant 

Abraham’s descendants

God directed Abraham’s servant to

Rebekah, in order that he may know whom God

had appointed for Isaac

The line of Abraham

Gen. 24:50Abraham’s

servant 

Abraham’s descendants

Laban and Bethuel

agreed to let Rebekah go

with Abraham’s servant to

marry Isaac

The line of Abraham

Gen. 24:60 Rebekah

God spoke through Rebekah’s

family His promised covenant

Abraham’s descendants

Rebekah’s family blessed her as she left, and confirmed the covenant that God had made with Abraham

Rebekah’s descendants

would be thousands of ten thousands

Gen. 24:62-67    Abraham’s descendants

Isaac and Rebekah get

married

The line of Abraham

Gen. 25:7-10    God’s blessing on Abraham’s

life

Abraham died “in a ripe old age, and old man satisfied

with life.”

The blessing on Abraham’s

life

Gen. 25:11 IsaacIsaac receives

Abraham’s blessing

God’s blessing on Abraham’s

heir Isaac

After the death of

Abraham, God blessed Isaac

God blesses Isaac

Gen. 25:21 IsaacRebekah was

barrenIsaac’s

descendants

Rebekah was barren and so Isaac prayed to God. God heard Isaac’s prayer and Rebekah

conceived

Isaac’s descendants

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Gen. 25:22 Rebekah

Rebekah was concerned about

the children within her

The inheritance

God told Rebekah that

the “older would serve

the younger.”

Jacob would lead Esau

Gen. 25:30-34     The inheritance

Esau sold Jacob his

birthright for a bowl of soup

Jacob received Esau’s

brothers birthright

Gen. 26:2-5 Isaac

There was a famine but God told Isaac to stay in the Promised

Land

The entire covenant

God established his covenant with

Isaac

The covenant is established

with Isaac

Gen. 26:8-11 Abimelech

God showed Abimelech that Rebekah was Isaac’s wife

Isaac’s descendants

God providentially

lead Abimelech to look out his

window to see that Rebekah was in fact Isaac’s wife

God persevered the

promised linage by

keeping all men away

from Rebekah through the kings orders

Gen. 26:10-15 Isaac   Isaac’s blessing

God blessed Isaac in the

same way He had blessed Abraham

God’s blessing on

Isaac

Gen. 26:24 IsaacThe servants of Gerar quarreled

with Isaac

The blessing and

descendants

God reaffirmed to

Isaac His covenant after

he had quarreled with the servants of

Gerar

God would bless Isaac

and multiply his

descendants

Gen. 26:26-30  Isaac was

threatened to leave the Promised Land

The promised land

God kept Isaac in the

promised land by having him

make a covenant with Abimelech.

God kept Isaac in the Promised

Land

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Gen. 27:27-30 Jacob  The entire covenant

Isaac blessed his son Jacob,

but he had thought he

was blessing Esau; this was a fulfillment

of the fact that the “older

would serve the younger

Jacob receives his father’s

blessing and becomes the next recipient

of the covenant

Gen. 27:42-45 JacobEsau sought to kill

JacobThe entire covenant

Esau sought to kill Jacob because he

had stolen his blessing. So Rebekah told Jacob to flee

to Haran

God preserves Jacob’s life from Esau

Gen. 28:3-4 Jacob

Isaac wanted to bless Jacob with the blessing of

Abraham

The entire covenant

Isaac blessed Jacob with the

blessing he had received

from his father Abraham

Isaac passes the covenant blessing onto

Jacob

Gen. 28:12-15 Jacob

God establishes his covenant with Jacob on his way

to Haran

The blessing, descendants,

and the promised land

Jacob fell asleep on his way to Haran, and he had a dream where

the Lord established

His covenant with Jacob

God establishes

His covenant with Jacob

Gen. 29:22-30:24    Jacob’s

descendants

Jacob marries Leah and

Rachel has 11 sons through his two wives and their two

servants

The beginnings of a multitude of descendants

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Gen. 31:3 JacobJacob was no

longer welcome at Laban’s house

The promised land

Laban and his sons were becoming unfriendly

toward Jacob, so God told

him to return to the

promised land

God tells Jacob to return

to the promised land

Gen. 31:11-13 JacobGod shows Jacob how He blessed

him

The blessing and the

promised land

God tells Jacob how He blessed him, and that he saw how

Laban had treated him

God emphasizes to Jacob that He blessed him during his

time at Laban’s

Gen. 31:24 LabanGod keeps Laban

from harming Jacob

The entire covenant

God tells Laban to not harm Jacob,

and to not say anything

either good or bad

God’s protection over Jacob

Gen. 32:24-30 Jacob   The blessing

Jacob wrestled with God, and

God established his blessing with

Jacob by renaming him

Israel

God changes Jacob’s name

to Israel, which begins the nation of

Israel

Gen. 33:3-5 JacobJacob was afraid

of his brother EsauThe entire covenant

God preserved Jacob’s life by

giving him favor with his brother Esau

God gives Jacob favor in Esau’s sight

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Gen. 35:1 Jacob

Jacob was afraid of the Canaanites and the Perizzites for what his sons

had done to Hamor and Schchem

The entire covenant

God commanded

Jacob to go to Bethel to the place where

he had established

His covenant with Jacob

when he fled from Esau

God reminds Jacob of His

covenant, which reminds him of the fact that God will protect him

from the residents

Gen. 35: 5  God kept those in

the land from harming His elect

The entire covenant

A terror from God fell upon the cities that

were near Jacob, so they did not attack

him

God preserved the life of

Jacob and his family

Gen. 35:10-13 Jacob

God wants to reaffirm the fact that he changed Jacob’s name to

Israel

The promised land, the

descendants, and a nation

God reaffirmed the

fact that he had renamed Jacob Israel,

and reaffirmed His covenant with Jacob

God reaffirmed the

fact that Jacob’s new

name is Israel

Gen. 35:18    The nation of

Israel

God provides Jacob with a 12th son, and

this represents the nation of

Israel

God gives Jacob his 12th

son Benjamin

Gen. 37:1    The promised

land

Jacob lived in the promised

land

God established

Jacob in Canaan, the

promised land

Gen. 37:25-28  

Joseph’s brothers desired to kill him, but God provided

a Ishmaelite caravan to save his

life

The entire covenant

God saved Joseph’s life, and through Joseph Israel

would be eventually

saved from the famine

God works good through

evil, and through it saves His covenant

people from famine

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Gen. 39 Joseph

God prospered Joseph in all that he did, both with

the Egyptian officer, and with

the jailer

The entire covenant

God prospered Joseph, and gave him

favor with the Egyptian

office, yet his wife lied, and

than with jailer

God blessed Joseph, and

was providentially putting him in a position to save Israel

Gen. 40-41:37 Joseph

God gave Joseph the gift of

interpreting dreams, which put him in the position

to save Israel

The entire covenant

God gave Joseph the

interpretation of the

Cupbearer’s, the Chief

Baker’s, and Pharaoh’s

Dream so that he would save Israel from the

coming famine

God gave Joseph the ability to interpret

dreams so that he would find

favor in Pharaoh’s

eyes, and so that Israel would be

saved from the coming famine

Gen. 41:38-49 Joseph

God places Joseph in a place of

authority so that he can save Israel from the coming

famine

The entire covenant

Pharaoh gives Joseph

authority over all Egypt so that he can

prepare for the coming famine

God placed Joseph as second in

command to Pharaoh so

that He could save Israel from the famine

Gen. 45:4-8Joseph’s brothers

 The entire covenant

Joseph reveals to his brother that God sent him to Egypt

in order to save them from the famine

God preserved His people from the

famine by sending

Joseph to Egypt

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Gen. 46:1-4 Israel

Israel wants to go see Joseph and so God tells him not to be afraid to go down to Egypt

God will make a great nation out of Israel

God tells Israel to not be

afraid to go down to

Egypt. He also tells him that He will make him a great nation, and that he will bring them back to the

promised land again

God promises to make Israel a great nation

in Egypt

Gen. 47:27    Israel

descendants

God prospered Israel in Egypt and he became very numerous

Israel became very numerous

in Egypt

Gen. 48:15-49:28 Israel’s sonsIsrael, before he died, wanted to

bless his childrenThe blessing

Israel was about to die, so he blessed his sons with the blessing

that was appropriate to

each one.

Israel blesses his sons with

the appropriate blessing for

each one

Gen. 50:24,25Joseph’s brothers

Joseph wanted to remind his

brothers that Egypt was not the

promised land

The promised land

As Joseph was dying, he

reminded his brothers that would give them the

promised land

Joseph emphasizes

the promised land