Luke 1:18

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Summary

Luke 1:18

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

Whereby

For

General references

Genesis 15:8

Bible References

Whereby

Then said Mary unto the angel, "How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"

And he said, "LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall possess it?"

And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara, that is ninety years old, bear?"

And Sara laughed in herself saying, "Now I am waxed old, shall I give myself to lust, and my lord old also?"

And Gideon said unto God, "If thou wilt save Israel by my hand as thou hast said:

Then said Hezekiah, "O what a great thing is this, that I shall go up in to the house of the LORD."

For

And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren; And both were well stricken in age.

And Moses said, "Six hundred thousand footmen are there of the people, among which I am. And thou hast said, 'I will give them flesh and they shall eat a month long.'

Then a great lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, "Though the LORD would make windows in heaven, yet would not this be." And he said again, "Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes and shalt not eat thereof."

And he fainted not in the faith, nor yet considered his own body, which was now dead, even when he was almost a hundred years old: neither yet that Sara was past childbearing.

General references

And he said, "LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall possess it?"