Is He Just a Regular Canaanite Guy?

Abraham is of Shim's line, right? That's right. And we know from earlier chapters in Genesis that it appears to be that Shim is going to be the one that this promised seed of the woman is going to come. So first promise, great nation. Abraham is going to have seed. He's going to have children and these children are going to create a nation. The second promise, I'm going to make your name great. This language of a great name we see again in 2 Samuel 7, 9. It's the same thing that promised to David in the Davidic covenant. We're going to see more of this in chapter 13. In other words, the nation