He did not know how God’s promise to Abraham would work out, but he believed that Jehovah would greatly multiply the offspring of his grandfather, whose descendants would become a great nation.
قَدْ تُذَكِّرُنَا فِكْرَةُ بَذْلِ ٱلْجُهُودِ ٱلْحَثِيثَةِ لِنَيْلِ بَرَكَةِ ٱللهِ بِٱلْأَبِ ٱلْجَلِيلِ يَعْقُوبَ .‏