Genesis 12:2 (BSB)

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

From Genesis 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 12:2

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 12:2: 2. And I will make of thee a great nation . Hitherto Moses has related what Abram had been commanded to do; now he annexes the promise of God to the command; and that for no light cause. For as we are slothful to obey, the Lord would command in vain, unless we are animated by a superadded confidence in his grace and benediction.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 12:1-3: We have here the call by which Abram was removed out of the land of his nativity into the land of promise, which was designed both to try his faith and obedience and also to separate him and set him apart for God, and for special services and favours which were further designed.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 12:2: And I will make of thee a great nation,.... In a literal sense, as the people of the Jews were that descended from him, and in a spiritual sense believers in all ages and of all nations, that walk in the steps of the faith of Abram, who are his children, and are blessed with him: and I will bless thee; not only with temporal...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Genesis 12:2: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: (c) The world shall recover by your seed, which is Christ, the blessing which they lost in Adam.