Genesis 20:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 12:17 : 17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
  • Gen 16:2 : 2 Sarai 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.
  • 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 30:2 : 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
  • 1 Sam 1:6 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
  • 1 Sam 5:10 : 10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people."

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  • Gen 20:17
    85%

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

  • Gen 18:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

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

  • Gen 20:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    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?

  • Gen 21:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Gen 12:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Gen 20:7-11
    5 verses
    75%

    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.'

  • Gen 20:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    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."

  • Gen 18:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

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

    14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

    15Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 17:15
    73%

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

  • Gen 26:10-11
    2 verses
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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!"

    11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

  • Gen 11:30
    73%

    30Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 24:36
    72%

    36Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 16:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    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.

  • Gen 21:25
    71%

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

  • Gen 21:22
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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.

  • Gen 17:19
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    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.

  • Gen 25:21
    71%

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

  • Gen 21:5
    70%

    5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.