Genesis 20:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

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  • Gen 26:6 : 6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
  • Gen 18:1 : 1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
  • Gen 26:1 : 1 Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
  • Gen 16:7 : 7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
  • Gen 16:14 : 14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.
  • Gen 10:19 : 19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
  • Gen 13:1 : 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.
  • Gen 14:7 : 7 Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
  • Gen 26:20 : 20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
  • Gen 26:26 : 26 And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.
  • Num 13:26 : 26 And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.
  • Num 20:16 : 16 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;
  • Deut 1:19 : 19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
  • Deut 32:51 : 51 Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 14:13-14 : 13 And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods. 14 And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.
  • Ps 29:8 : 8 At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh.

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

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    17So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.

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    6So Isaac went on living in Gerar;

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    34And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

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    9And he went on, journeying still to the South.

    10And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

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    1Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

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    3And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

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    15And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

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  • Gen 20:10-13
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    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

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    31And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

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    19Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

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    62Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

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    18And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

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    5And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

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    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

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    21And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

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    17Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

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    23And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

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    5And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?