Genesis 15:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

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  • Luke 1:18 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.
  • 2 Kgs 20:8 : 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?
  • Ps 86:17 : 17 Show me a sign for good, that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
  • Isa 7:11 : 11 Ask for a sign from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
  • Judg 6:36-40 : 36 And Gideon said unto God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said. 38 And it was so. For he rose up early the next morning, and squeezed together the fleece, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. 39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray you, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. 40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
  • 1 Sam 14:9-9 : 9 If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place and not go up to them. 10 But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the LORD has delivered them into our hand; and this will be a sign to us."
  • Gen 24:2-4 : 2 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4 But you shall go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
  • Gen 24:13-14 : 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. 14 Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I will give your camels a drink also'—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."
  • Judg 6:17-24 : 17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me. 18 Depart not hence, I pray you, until I come unto you, and bring forth my offering, and set it before you. And he said, I will wait until you come again. 19 And Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: he put the meat in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight. 22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. 23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto you; fear not: you shall not die. 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  • Luke 1:34 : 34 Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I do not know a man?

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