Genesis 12:17

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 16:21 : 21 He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • 1 Chr 21:22 : 22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, 15 [ Saying], Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 [ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 12:18-20
    3 verses
    84%

    18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

    19why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

    20And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

  • Gen 12:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

    15And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

    16And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.

  • Gen 12:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

    11And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

    12and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.

    18For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 16:1-6
    6 verses
    74%

    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

    3And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

    4And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

    5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee.

    6But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Gen 17:15
    74%

    15And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

  • Gen 20:2
    72%

    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Exod 8:24
    72%

    24And Jehovah did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

  • Gen 11:30
    71%

    30And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

  • Gen 12:5
    70%

    5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;

  • Gen 20:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

    12And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife: