Luke 2:36

Geneva Bible (1560)

And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie:

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  • Acts 21:9 : 9 Now he had foure daughters virgins, which did prophecie.
  • Gen 30:13 : 13 Then sayde Leah, Ah, blessed am I, for the daughters will blesse me; she called his name, Asher.
  • Exod 15:20 : 20 And Miriam the prophetesse, sister of Aaron tooke a timbrell in her hande, and all the women came out after her with timbrels and daunces.
  • Judg 4:4 : 4 And at that time Deborah a Prophetesse the wife of Lapidoth iudged Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 22:14 : 14 So Hilkiah the Priest and Ahikam, and Achbor & Shaphan, and Asahiah went vnto Huldah the Prophetesse the wife of Shallum, ye sonne of Tikuah, the sonne of Harhas keeper of the wardrobe: (and she dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge) and they communed with her.
  • Job 5:26 : 26 Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
  • Ps 92:14 : 14 They shall still bring foorth fruite in their age: they shall be fat and flourishing,
  • Acts 2:18 : 18 And on my seruauntes, and on mine handmaides I will powre out of my Spirite in those daies, and they shall prophecie.
  • 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.
  • Rev 7:6 : 6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthali were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelue thousand.

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    5 In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.

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    7 And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

  • 36 And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.

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