Genesis 18:30

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Gen 44:18 : 18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
  • Judg 6:39 : 39 Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.
  • Esth 4:11-16 : 11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days. 12 They told to Mordecai Esther's words. 13 Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther, Don't think to yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. 14 For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this? 15 Then Esther bade them return answer to Mordecai, 16 Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
  • Ps 89:7 : 7 A very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, To be feared above all those who are around him?
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

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  • Gen 18:31-33
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    92%

    31He 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."

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

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

  • Gen 18:20-29
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    20Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

    21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."

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

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

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

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

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

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

    28What 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."

    29He 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."

  • Gen 19:17-21
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    17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"

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

    19See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

    20See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

    21He 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.

  • Gen 18:2-3
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    2He 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,

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

  • Gen 18:17
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    17Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

  • Jonah 3:9-10
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    9Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

    10God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.

  • Judg 6:17
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    17He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

  • Ezek 22:30
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    30I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

  • Gen 19:7
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    7He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

  • Amos 7:3
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    3Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Exod 32:14
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    14Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

  • Gen 6:3
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    3Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

  • Gen 33:13
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    13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

  • Gen 24:12
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    12He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

  • Jer 26:3
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    3It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

  • 1 Sam 20:7
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    7If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

  • Gen 24:39
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    39I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'

  • Gen 19:28
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    28He 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.

  • Jer 18:10
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    10if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

  • Jonah 4:4
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    4Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"

  • Judg 6:39
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    39Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.

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    49Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."

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    34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Gen 44:18
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    18Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

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    10Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

  • Job 37:20
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    20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

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    31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

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    8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

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    2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of the evil.

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    20You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."