Genesis 18:17

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
  • John 15:15 : 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
  • Gen 19:24 : 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Didn't you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?
  • Jas 2:23 : 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

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  • Gen 18:18-33
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    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

    19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

    20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

    21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

    22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

    23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

    24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

    25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

    26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

    27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

    28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

    29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

    30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

    31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

    32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

    33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

  • Gen 18:15-16
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    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

    16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

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    17 He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."

    18 Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, "It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him."

  • 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

  • Gen 17:2-3
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    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

    3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

  • 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 18:1-3
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    1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

    2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

    3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

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    10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

    11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

  • 14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

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    27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

    28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

  • 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

  • 1 It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

  • 16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • 20 "Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

  • 15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

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    17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

    18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

  • 1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

  • Gen 19:17-18
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    17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

    18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

  • 21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

  • 11 The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

  • 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

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    2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

  • 22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.