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Kisah Para Rasul 7:8

Lalu Allah memberikan kepadanya perjanjian sunat; dan demikianlah Abraham memperanakkan Ishak, lalu menyunatkannya pada hari yang kedelapan; dan Ishak memperanakkan Yakub, dan Yakub memperanakkan kedua belas bapa leluhur kita.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Circumcision;   Court;   Government;   Jacob;   Obedience;   Readings, Select;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Patriarchs;   Stephen;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Circumcision;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abraham;   Circumcision;   Gospel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Old Testament in the New Testament, the;   Paul the Apostle;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Future State;   Patriarchs;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Patriarch;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Patriarchs;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Covenant;   Jacob;   Preaching in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Libertines;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Patriarch;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Circumcision ;   Eighth Day;   Family;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Jacob ;   Patriarch ;   Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Patriarch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stephen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Esau and Jacob;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaac;   Patriarch;   Persecution;   Stephen;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu Allah memberikan kepadanya perjanjian sunat; dan demikianlah Abraham memperanakkan Ishak, lalu menyunatkannya pada hari yang kedelapan; dan Ishak memperanakkan Yakub, dan Yakub memperanakkan kedua belas bapa leluhur kita.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu dikaruniakan-Nya kepadanya Perjanjian persunatan; maka demikianlah Ibrahim telah memperanakkan Ishak, lalu menyunatkan dia pada hari yang kedelapannya, dan Ishak memperanakkan Yakub, dan Yakub memperanakkan kedua belas nenek moyang ini.

Contextual Overview

1 Then said ye chiefe priest: Are these thynges so? 2 And he said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hearken. The God of glorie appeared vnto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And sayde vnto him: Get thee out of thy countrey, & fro thy kinrede, & come into the lande which I shall shew thee. 4 Then came he out of the lande of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, whe his father was dead, he brought hym into this lande wherin ye nowe dwell. 5 And he gaue hym none inheritaunce in it, no not the breadth of a foote: and promised that he woulde geue it to hym to possesse, and to his seede after hym, when as yet he had no chylde. 6 God veryly spake on this wyse, that his seede shoulde soiourne in a straunge lande, and that they shoulde kepe it in bondage, and entreate them euyl foure hundreth yeres. 7 And the nation to whom they shalbe in bondage, wyll I iudge, sayde God: And after that, shall they come foorth, & serue me in this place. 8 And he gaue hym the couenaunt of circumcision: And he begate Isaac, and circumcised hym the eyght day, and Isaac [begate] Iacob, and Iacob [begate] the twelue patriarkes. 9 And the patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: and God was with hym, 10 And deliuered hym out of all his aduersities, and gaue hym fauour & wisedome in the syght of Pharao kyng of Egypt: and he made hym gouernour ouer Egypt, & ouer all his housholde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the covenant: Genesis 17:9-14, John 7:22, Romans 4:10, Galatians 3:15, Galatians 3:17

and so: Or, "and thus," ךבי [Strong's G2532], ןץפשע [Strong's G3779], in this covenant. Genesis 17:12, Genesis 21:1-4

and Isaac: Genesis 25:21-26, 1 Chronicles 1:34, Matthew 1:2, Romans 9:9-13

and Jacob: Genesis 29:31-35, Genesis 30:1-24, Genesis 35:16, Genesis 35:23-26, Exodus 1:1-4, 1 Chronicles 2:1, 1 Chronicles 2:2

patriarchs: Acts 2:29, Hebrews 7:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:10 - Every Genesis 17:11 - a token Genesis 21:2 - conceived Genesis 21:3 - General Genesis 21:4 - General Genesis 25:19 - Abraham Genesis 35:22 - Now the sons Psalms 105:9 - General Luke 1:59 - General Luke 3:34 - which was the son of Isaac

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision,.... Or the covenant, of which circumcision was a sign or token, Genesis 17:11. Stephen speaks here in the language of the Jews, who are wont to speak of circumcision after this manner; hence in the Jewish liturgy, there is a collect, לברית מילה, "for the covenant of circumcision" h; and so it is said i,

"when Joseph died, they made void the "covenant of circumcision":''

and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; according to the express command in Genesis 17:12

and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs; the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.

h Seder Tephillot, fol. 197. 1. Ed. Basil. Vid. Kimchi in Mal. iii. 1. i Shemot Rabba, sect. 1. fol. 90. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he gave him - That is, God appointed or commanded this, Genesis 17:9-13.

The covenant - The word “covenant” denotes properly “a compact or agreement between two or more persons,” usually attended with seals, pledges, or sanctions. In Genesis 17:7, and elsewhere, it is said that God would establish his “covenant” with Abraham; that is, he made him certain definite promises, attended with pledges and seals, etc. The idea of a strict “compact” or “agreement” between God and man, as between “equal parties”; is not found in the Bible. The word is commonly used, as here, to denote “a promise on the part of God,” attended with pledges, and demanding, on the part of man, in order to avail himself of its benefits, a specified course of conduct. The “covenant” is therefore another name for denoting two things on the part of God:

  1. A “command,” which man is not at liberty to reject, as he would be if it were a literal covenant; and,
  2. A “promise,” which is to be fulfilled only on the condition of obedience. The covenant with Abraham was simply a “promise” to give him the land, and to make him a great nation, etc. It was never proposed to Abraham with the supposition that he was at liberty to reject it, or to refuse to comply with its conditions. Circumcision was appointed as the mark or indication that Abraham and those thus designated were the persons included in the gracious purpose and promise. It served to separate them as a special people; a people whose unique characteristic it was that they obeyed and served the God who had made the promise to Abraham. The phrase “covenant of circumcision” means, therefore, the covenant or promise which God made to Abraham, of which circumcision was the distinguishing “mark” or “sign.”

The twelve patriarchs - The word “patriarch” properly denotes “the father and ruler of a family.” But it is commonly applied, by way of eminence, to “the progenitors” of the Jewish race, particularly to “the twelve sons of Jacob.” See the notes on Acts 2:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 7:8. He gave him the covenant of circumcision — That is, he instituted the rite of circumcision, as a sign of that covenant which he had made with him and his posterity. See Genesis 17:10, c.

And so Abraham begat Isaac — και ουτως, And thus, in this covenant, he begat Isaac and as a proof that he was born under this covenant, was a true son of Abraham and inheritor of the promises, he circumcised him the eighth day; and this rite being observed in the family of Isaac, Jacob and his twelve sons were born under the covenant; and thus their descendants, the twelve tribes, being born under the same covenant, and practising the same rite, were, by the ordinance of Gods legal inheritors of the promised land, and all the secular and spiritual advantages connected with it.


 
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