Genesis 20:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

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  • Gen 26:6 : 6 And Isaac lived in Gerar:
  • Gen 18:1 : 1 And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
  • Gen 26:1 : 1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
  • Gen 16:7 : 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
  • Gen 16:14 : 14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
  • Gen 10:19 : 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go to Gerar, unto Gaza; as you go, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
  • Gen 13:1 : 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
  • Gen 14:7 : 7 And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelled in Hazezontamar.
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Now Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi, for he dwelt in the south.
  • Gen 26:20 : 20 And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him.
  • Gen 26:26 : 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
  • Num 13:26 : 26 And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
  • Num 20:16 : 16 When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.
  • Deut 1:19 : 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
  • Deut 32:51 : 51 Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 14:13-14 : 13 And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar, and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover, for they were destroyed before the LORD and before His army; and they carried away very much spoil. 14 And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD came upon them, and they plundered all the cities, for there was very much spoil in them.
  • Ps 29:8 : 8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

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    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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    17And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

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    6And Isaac lived in Gerar:

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    9And Abram journeyed, continuing toward the south.

    10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to stay there; for the famine was severe in the land.

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    1And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

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    3And he traveled on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

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    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: live where it pleases you.

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  • Gen 20:10-13
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    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?

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    19So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

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    62Now Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi, for he dwelt in the south.

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    18Then Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

  • Gen 12:5-6
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    5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to the land of Canaan.

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    23And he went up from there to Beersheba.

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    5And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"