Genesis 20:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
  • 1 Thess 5:25 : 25 Brothers, pray for us.
  • Gen 20:7 : 7 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
  • 1 Sam 5:11-12 : 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people." For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12 The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
  • Ezra 6:10 : 10 that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to 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 what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job. 10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
  • Matt 21:22 : 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
  • Acts 3:24 : 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

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

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    14Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

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

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    7Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

    8Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

    9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

    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.'

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

    3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

    4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

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    1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

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

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    22It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

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

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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.

    16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

    17Then 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?"

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

    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

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    2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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    21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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    11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

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    17Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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    27Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

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    10Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

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