Genesis 20:17

Coverdale Bible (1535)

As for Abraham, he prayed vnto God: Then God healed Abimelech, and his wyfe, and his maydens, so that they bare childre.

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  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Knowlege youre fautes one to another: and praye one for another, that ye maye be healed. The prayer of a righteous man auayleth moche, yf it be feruet.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Be not carefull, but in all thinges let yor peticions in prayer and supplicacion, with geuynge of thankes be knowne before God.
  • 1 Thess 5:25 : 25 Brethren, praye for vs.
  • Gen 20:7 : 7 Now therfore delyuer the man his wife ageyne, for he is a prophet: and let him pray for ye, and thou shalt lyue. But and yf thou delyuer her not ageyne, be sure, that thou shalt dye the death, and all that is thine.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 But when the LORDE sawe, that Lea was nothinge regarded, he made her frutefull, and Rachel baren.
  • 1 Sam 5:11-12 : 11 Then sente they forth, and gathered all ye prynces of the Philistynes together, and sayde: Sende awaye the Arke of the God of Israel agayne vnto hir place, that it slaye not me & my people: for there is a very greate rumoure with the deed in all the cite, and the hande of God is there. 12 And the people that dyed not, were smytten in secrete places, so that the noyse of the cite wete vp vnto heauen.
  • Ezra 6:10 : 10 that they maye offre swete sauoures vnto ye God of heauen, and praye for the kynges lyfe, and for his children.
  • Job 42:9-9 : 9 So Eliphas the Themanite, Baldad ye Suhite and Sophar the Naamathite wete their waye, and did acordynge as the LORDE commaunded them. The LORDE also accepted the personne off Iob, 10 and the LORDE turned him vnto Iob, whe he prayed for his frendes: Yee the LORDE gaue Iob twyse as moch as he had afore.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORDE is farre from the vngodly, but he heareth ye prayer of the rightuous.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 Thus saieth the LORDE, euen the holy one & maker of Israel: Axe me of thinges for to come, concernynge my sonnes: and put me in remebraunce, as touchinge the workes of my hodes:
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Axe, and it shalbe geuen you: Seke, and ye shall fynde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.
  • Matt 21:22 : 22 And what soeuer ye axe in prayer, yf ye beleue, ye shal receaue it.
  • Acts 3:24 : 24 And all the prophetes from Samuel and thence forth as many as haue spoken, haue likewyse tolde of these dayes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 20:18
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    18For a fore the LORDE had closed all the matrices of Abimelechs house, because of Sara Abrahams wife.

  • Gen 20:14-15
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    78%

    14Then toke Abimelech shepe and oxen, seruauntes and maydens, and gaue them vnto Abraham, and delyuered him Sara his wife agayne,

    15and sayde: Beholde, my londe stondeth open before the, dwell where it liketh the.

  • Gen 20:7-11
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    7Now therfore delyuer the man his wife ageyne, for he is a prophet: and let him pray for ye, and thou shalt lyue. But and yf thou delyuer her not ageyne, be sure, that thou shalt dye the death, and all that is thine.

    8Then Abimelech rose vp by tymes in the mornynge, and called all his seruauntes, and tolde all these thinges in their eares, and the men were sore afrayed,

    9and Abimelech called Abraham, and sayde vnto him: Wherfore hast thou done this vnto vs? And what haue I offended ye, that thou shuldest brynge on me and on my kyngdome so greate a synne? Thou hast not dealt with vs, as a man shulde deale.

    10And Abimelech saide morouer vnto Abraham: What sawest thou, yt thou hast done this thinge?

    11Abraham sayde: I thought: Peraduenture there is no feare of God in this place, & they shall sleye me for my wifes sake,

  • Gen 20:2-4
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    2and sayde of Sara his wife: She is my sister. Then Abimelech the kinge of Gerar sent for her, and caused her be fett awaye.

    3But God came to Abimelech by night in a dreame, & sayde vnto him: Beholde, thou art but a deed man, for the womans sake which thou hast taken, for she is a mans wife.

    4Neuertheles Abimelech had not yet touched her, and sayde: LORDE, wilt thou sley a righteous people?

  • Gen 21:1-2
    2 verses
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    1The LORDE also vysited Sara, acordinge as he had promysed: & dealt with her, euen as he had sayde.

    2And Sara was with childe, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen in the tyme appoynted, like as God had spoken vnto him afore.

  • Gen 21:22
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    22At the same tyme talked Abimelech and Phicol his chefe captayne with Abraham, and sayde: God is with the in all that thou doest.

  • Gen 21:25
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    25And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for the well of water, which Abimelechs seruauntes had taken awaye by violence.

  • Gen 17:15-19
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    15And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai, but Sara shal be hir name:

    16for I will blesse her, and geue the a sonne of her. I wil blesse her, and people shall come of her, yee and kynges of many people.

    17Then fell Abraha vpo his face, and laughed, and sayde in his hert: Shal a childe be borne vnto me that am an hundreth yeare olde? And shall Sara yt is nyentie yeare olde, beare?

    18And Abraha sayde vnto God: O that Israel might lyue in thy sight.

    19Then sayde God: Yee euen Sara thy wyfe shall beare the a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: for with him wil I make my euerlastinge couenaunt, and with his sede after him.

  • Gen 16:2
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    2and sayde vnto Abram: Beholde, the LORDE hath closed me, that I can not beare. Go in (I praye the) vnto my mayde: peraduenture I shalbe multiplied by her, more then by myself. And Abram herkened vnto the voyce of Sarai. Than Sarai

  • Gen 25:21
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    21Isaac besought the LORDE for his wyfe (because she was baren) and the LORDE was intreated, and Rebecca his wyfe conceaued.

  • Gen 18:11
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    11And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age: so that it wente nomore with Sara after ye maner of wemen:

  • Gen 12:17
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    17But ye LORDE plaged Pharao & his house wt greate plages, because of Sarai Abras wife.

  • Gen 21:27
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    27The toke Abraham shepe and oxen, and gaue them vnto Abimelech, and they both made a bonde together.

  • Gen 26:10
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    10Abimelech saide: Why hast thou then done this vnto vs? It coude lightly haue come to passe, that some of the people might haue lyen with thy wyfe, and so haddest thou brought synne vpo vs.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5An hundreth yeare olde was Abraha, whan his sonne Isaac was borne vnto him.

  • Gen 22:20
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    20After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor: