Genesis 20:17

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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, so they could bear children again.

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  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful and effective.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
  • 1 Thess 5:25 : 25 Brothers, pray also for us.
  • Gen 20:7 : 7 Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you can be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.'
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.
  • 1 Sam 5:11-12 : 11 So they sent word and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines and said, 'Send the Ark of the God of Israel away, let it return to its place so that it will not kill us and our people.' For there was a deadly panic throughout the whole city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12 The men who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
  • Ezra 6:10 : 10 So that they may offer pleasing offerings to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
  • Job 42:9-9 : 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the LORD had instructed them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer. 10 After Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 This is what the LORD, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, says: ‘Concerning things to come, ask me, and concerning my children and the work of my hands, you command me?’
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
  • Matt 21:22 : 22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.'
  • Acts 3:24 : 24 Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have foretold these days.

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    18For the LORD had completely closed every womb in Abimelech's household because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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    14Then Abimelech brought sheep, cattle, male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah, his wife, to him.

    15And Abimelech said, 'My land is before you; settle wherever you please.'

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    7Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you can be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.'

    8Early the next morning, Abimelech summoned all his officials, told them everything that had happened, and they were very afraid.

    9Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, 'What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such a great sin upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.'

    10And Abimelech asked Abraham, 'What was your reason for doing this?'

    11Abraham replied, 'I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

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    2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister,' and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.

    3But God came to Abimelech in a dream during the night and said to him, 'You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.'

    4Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, 'Lord, will you destroy a nation even if it is innocent?'

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    1The Lord cared for Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.

    2Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had promised him.

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    22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, 'God is with you in everything you do.'

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    25Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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    15Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

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    17Abraham fell facedown and laughed, saying to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

    18And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"

    19Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

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    2So Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the LORD has prevented me from having children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." And Abram listened to Sarai's voice.

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    21Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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    11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well along in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

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    17But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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    27So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

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    10Then Abimelech said, "What have you done to us? One of the people could have easily slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

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