Parallel Verses
Webster
So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
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 King James verseion
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave women, and they gave birth.
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,
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 thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, to all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved. 17 So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children. 18 For the LORD had made barren all the females of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Cross References
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much.
Genesis 20:7
Now therefore restore to the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou shalt not restore her, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.
Genesis 29:31
And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.
1 Samuel 5:11-12
So they sent and convened 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, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Ezra 6:10
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
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 15:29
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 45:11
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you:
Matthew 21:22
And all things whatever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Acts 3:24
And all the prophets also from Samuel, and those that follow, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold these days.
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brethren, pray for us.