Genesis 20:1

World English Bible (2000)

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

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  • Gen 26:6 : 6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
  • Gen 18:1 : 1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
  • Gen 26:1 : 1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
  • Gen 16:7 : 7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in 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 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
  • Gen 13:1 : 1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
  • Gen 14:7 : 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
  • Gen 26:20 : 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
  • Gen 26:26 : 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
  • Num 13:26 : 26 They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
  • Num 20:16 : 16 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
  • Deut 1:19 : 19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
  • Deut 32:51 : 51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 14:13-14 : 13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his army; and they carried away very much booty. 14 They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.
  • Ps 29:8 : 8 Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 20:2
    80%

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

  • Gen 26:17
    79%

    17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

  • Gen 26:6
    79%

    6Isaac lived in Gerar.

  • Gen 21:34
    77%

    34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

  • Gen 12:9-10
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    76%

    9Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

    10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

  • Gen 26:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Gen 13:3
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    3He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

  • Gen 20:15
    74%

    15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Gen 13:1
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    1Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

  • Gen 20:10-13
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    73%

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

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

    12Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

    13It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

  • Gen 11:31
    72%

    31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

  • Gen 22:19
    72%

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

  • Gen 24:62
    72%

    62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

  • Gen 13:18
    71%

    18Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

  • Gen 12:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

    6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

  • Gen 12:1
    71%

    1Now 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.

  • Acts 7:4
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    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

  • Gen 21:21
    70%

    21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 20:17
    70%

    17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

  • Gen 24:7
    70%

    7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 28:10
    70%

    10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

  • Gen 18:16
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    16The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

  • Gen 17:15
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    15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 26:23
    70%

    23He went up from there to Beersheba.

  • Gen 35:27
    69%

    27Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 23:2
    69%

    2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

  • Gen 24:5
    69%

    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"