Teks -- Genesis 17:8 (NET)

17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”

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Wesley: Gen 17:8 - And I will give thee Canaan for an everlasting possession

God had before promised this land to Abraham and his seed, Gen 15:18. But here, it is promised for an everlasting possession, as a type of heaven, that everlasting rest which remains for the people of God. This is that better country to which Abraham had an eye, and the grant of which was that which answered the vast extent of that promise, that God would be to them a God; so that if God had not designed this, he would have been ashamed to be called their God, Heb 11:16. As the land of Canaan was secured to the seed of Abraham, according to the flesh; so heaven is secured to all his spiritual seed for a possession truly everlasting. The offer of this eternal life is made in the word, and confirmed by the sacraments, to all that are under the external administration of the covenant, and the earnest of it is given to all believers.

JFB: Gen 17:8 - I will give unto thee . . . the land

It had been previously promised to Abraham and his posterity (Gen 15:18). Here it is promised as an "everlasting possession," and was, therefore, a type of heaven, "the better country" (Heb 11:16).

Clarke: Gen 17:8 - Everlasting possession

Everlasting possession - Here עולם olam appears to be used in its accommodated meaning, and signifies the completion of the Divine counsel in reference to a particular period or dispensation. And it is literally true that the Israelites possessed the land of Canaan till the Mosaic dispensation was terminated in the complete introduction of that of the Gospel. But as the spiritual and temporal covenants are both blended together, and the former was pointed out and typified by the latter, hence the word even here may be taken in its own proper meaning, that of ever-during, or eternal; because the spiritual blessings pointed out by the temporal covenant shall have no end. And hence it is immediately added, I will be their God, not for a time, certainly, but for ever and ever. See the note on Gen 21:33.

TSK: Gen 17:8 - And I // wherein thou art a stranger // everlasting // their

And I : Gen 12:7, Gen 13:15, Gen 13:17, Gen 15:7-21; Psa 105:9, Psa 105:11

wherein thou art a stranger : Heb. of thy sojournings, Gen 23:4, Gen 28:4

everlasting : Gen 48:4; Exo 21:6, Exo 31:16, Exo 31:17, Exo 40:15; Lev 16:34; Num 25:13; Deu 32:8; 2Sa 23:5; Psa 103:17; Heb 9:15

their : Exo 6:7; Lev 26:12; Deu 4:37, Deu 14:2, Deu 26:18, Deu 29:13

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Poole: Gen 17:8 - And to thy seed // For an everlasting possession

And to thy seed unto thee, not in thy own person, but in thy seed. See Gen 13:15,17 .

For an everlasting possession upon condition of their obedience to God, as is oft expressed; wherein seeing they so notoriously failed, it is no wonder if they possessed it but a little while, as the prophet complains, Isa 63:18 .

Gill: Gen 17:8 - 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

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee,.... To him in right, and to them in possession, and for an inheritance:

the land wherein thou art a stranger; or "the land of sojournings" or "pilgrimages" ^l, which were many; for he often removed from place to place, and sometimes sojourned in one place, and sometimes in another:

all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; this respects only the natural seed of Abraham, and those in the line of Isaac and Jacob, to whom this land was given to hold for ever, in case they were obedient to the will of God; and therefore whenever they were disobedient, they were carried captive from it, as they are at this day; but when they shall be converted, they will return to this land and possess it to the end of the world; and which was a figure of the heavenly inheritance, which is an eternal one, and will be enjoyed by all his spiritual seed to all eternity:

and I will be their God; as he was to all the natural seed of Abraham in a spiritual sense, to whom the adoption belonged, and whom he chose and separated as a peculiar people to himself, and bestowed in providence many peculiar favours upon them, both in a civil and religious way; and as he is to all his spiritual seed in an evangelic sense, to whom he stands in the relation of their covenant God and Father in Christ, in whom he blesses them with all spiritual blessings, and will continue to be so unto death, and to all eternity.