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My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/15-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/15-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/15-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/15.htm">Chapter 15</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/15-1.htm" title="Genesis 15:1">◄</a> Genesis 15:2 <a href="../genesis/15-3.htm" title="Genesis 15:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/15.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/15.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But Abram answered, "Sovereign LORD, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But Abram answered, "LORD All-Powerful, you have given me everything I could ask for, except children. And when I die, Eliezer of Damascus will get all I own. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/15.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what can you give me, if I die childless and have only a servant of my household, Eliezer of Damascus?”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.</p><p class="hdg">what.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/12-1.htm">Genesis 12:1-3</a> And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. . . . </p><p class="hdg">childless.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/25-21.htm">Genesis 25:21</a> And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/30-1.htm">Genesis 30:1,2</a> And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/1-11.htm">1 Samuel 1:11</a> And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/127-3.htm">Psalm 127:3</a> Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/13-12.htm">Proverbs 13:12</a> Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/56-5.htm">Isaiah 56:5</a> I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/7-5.htm">Acts 7:5</a> And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.</p><p class="hdg">the.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/24-2.htm">Genesis 24:2,10</a> And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/39-4.htm">Genesis 39:4-6,9</a> And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered to him: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/43-19.htm">Genesis 43:19</a> Wherefore, going up to the steward of the house, at the door,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/44-1.htm">Genesis 44:1</a> And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/17-2.htm">Proverbs 17:2</a> A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/15.htm">God's Covenant with Abram</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/14-15.htm">Genesis 14:15</a></span><br />And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and defeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/15-1.htm">Genesis 15:1</a></span><br />Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/15-3.htm">Genesis 15:3</a></span><br />And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/17-1.htm">Isaiah 17:1</a></span><br />The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/49-23.htm">Jeremiah 49:23</a></span><br />Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/15-1.htm">Abram</a> <a href="/genesis/12-5.htm">Acquired</a> <a href="/genesis/11-30.htm">Child</a> <a href="/acts/7-5.htm">Childless</a> <a href="/revelation/22-11.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/genesis/14-15.htm">Damascus</a> <a href="/luke/3-29.htm">Eliezer</a> <a href="/luke/3-29.htm">Elie'zer</a> <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Estate</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">Heir</a> <a href="/james/4-1.htm">Hence</a> <a href="/genesis/14-14.htm">House</a> <a href="/revelation/21-7.htm">Inherit</a> <a href="/genesis/14-22.htm">Possessor</a> <a href="/revelation/6-10.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/titus/1-7.htm">Steward</a> <a href="/genesis/14-23.htm">Wealth</a> <a href="/genesis/13-9.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm">Abram</a> <a href="/genesis/31-18.htm">Acquired</a> <a href="/genesis/15-3.htm">Child</a> <a href="/leviticus/20-20.htm">Childless</a> <a href="/exodus/9-2.htm">Continue</a> <a href="/2_samuel/8-5.htm">Damascus</a> <a href="/exodus/18-4.htm">Eliezer</a> <a href="/exodus/18-4.htm">Elie'zer</a> <a href="/genesis/31-14.htm">Estate</a> <a href="/genesis/15-3.htm">Heir</a> <a href="/genesis/37-17.htm">Hence</a> <a href="/genesis/15-3.htm">House</a> <a href="/genesis/15-7.htm">Inherit</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-6.htm">Possessor</a> <a href="/genesis/15-8.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/genesis/43-16.htm">Steward</a> <a href="/genesis/15-14.htm">Wealth</a> <a href="/genesis/16-8.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/15-2.htm">Genesis 15:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: Abram am and But can childless Damascus Eliezer estate give GOD heir house I inherit is LORD me my O of one remain said since Sovereign the what who will you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/15-2.htm">OT Law: Genesis 15:2 Abram said Lord Yahweh what will you (Gen. 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