Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Genesis 17:8
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Genesis17:8
8. I will give unto thee ... the land--It had been previously promised to Abraham and his posterity (Ge 15:18). Here it is promised as an "everlasting possession," and was, therefore, a type of heaven, "the better country" (He 11:16).
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