Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave women, and they gave birth.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
Holman Bible
Then Abraham prayed to God,
International Standard Version
Then Abraham interceded with God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants so they could bear children,
A Conservative Version
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons.
American Standard Version
And Abraham prayed unto God. And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bare children.
Amplified
So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, and they again gave birth to children,
Bible in Basic English
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
Darby Translation
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his handmaids, and they bore children.
Julia Smith Translation
And Abraham will pray to God; and God will heal Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they will bring forth.
King James 2000
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bore children.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they [could] bear children [again].
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare.
NET Bible
Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.
New Heart English Bible
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
The Emphasized Bible
And Abraham prayed unto God, - and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, so that they bare children,
Webster
So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
World English Bible
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Abraham prayeth unto God, and God healeth Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:
Themes
Barrenness » Sent as a judgment
Good for evil » Returning » Abraham, to abimelech
intercession » Additional instances of » Abraham » In behalf of abimelech
Miracles » Catalogue of » The closing of the wombs of abimelech's household
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 20:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abraham And Abimelech
16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is to you a covering of the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all this, you are reproved. 17 And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave women, and they gave birth. 18 For the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Cross References
James 5:16
Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.
Genesis 20:7
Now therefore, restore his wife to the man. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live. And if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.
Genesis 29:31
And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, even He opened her womb. But Rachel was barren.
1 Samuel 5:11-12
And they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
Ezra 6:10
so that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savors to the God of Heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
Job 42:9-10
And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded them. Jehovah also accepted the face of Job.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is a hateful thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Proverbs 15:29
Jehovah is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 45:11
So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?
Matthew 7:7
Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
Acts 3:24
And also all the prophets from Samuel and those following after, as many as spoke, have likewise foretold of these days.
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brothers, pray for us.