1- After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, ” Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”
According to Ephesians 6:16, Jesus is the shield of faith. God is a much better reward than anything else.
2- And Abram said, ” LORD GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”
3- And Abram said, ” Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.”
4- And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, “This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.”
5- And He brought him forth abroad, and said, “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:” and He said unto him, “So shall thy seed be.”
Abrams seed will be countless as the stars in heaven.
6- And he believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness.
7- And He said unto him, ” I am the LORD That brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.”
8- And he said, ” LORD GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it.”
9- And He sais unto him, ” Take Me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
10- And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12- And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13- And He said unto Abram, ” Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, (and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them) four hundred years;
400 years from Isaac’s birth. It is 430 years from this prophecy to clarify Acts 7:6.
14- And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15- And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16- But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”
17- And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those places.
18- In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19- The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20- And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21- And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
The Kenites are the children of Cain, and Rephaims are an offshoot of the fallen angels.