Genesis - 17:6



6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 17:6.

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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall proceed from thee.
and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.
Et multiplicabo to valde, et ponam to in gentes, et reges ex to egredientur.

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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful,.... In children, for he had not only a son by Sarai, from whom sprung a numerous offspring, but he had six sons by Keturah, who became the heads of large nations:
and I will make nations of thee; as the nations of Israel and Judah, of the Midianites and Edomites, of the Arabs, Saracens, and Turks:
and kings shall come out of thee; as the twelve princes of Ishmael, the kings of Edom and Midian, of the Arabs, Saracens, and Turks, and of Israel and Judah, and especially, as observed by Grotius, and others, the King Messiah: to which may be added, in a mystical sense, all Christian kings and princes of the same faith with him; nay, all believers, who are all kings and priests unto God.

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