Genesis 20:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

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  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
  • 1 Thess 5:25 : 25 Brethren, pray for us.
  • Gen 20:7 : 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
  • 1 Sam 5:11-12 : 11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
  • Ezra 6:10 : 10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
  • Job 42:9-9 : 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted . 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of , when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave twice as much as he had before.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the ayer of the uight is his delight.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the ayer of the righteous.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
  • Matt 21:22 : 22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
  • Acts 3:24 : 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

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

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    14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

    15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

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    7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

    8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

    9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

    10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

    11 And 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.

  • Gen 20:2-4
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    2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of rar sent, and took Sarah.

    3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

    4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

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    1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

    2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old a, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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    22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

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    25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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

    16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

    17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

    18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

    19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

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

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    21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in a; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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    17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

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    27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

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    10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

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    5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

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    20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;