Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

Bible References

Fell

Genesis 18:2
He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed to the ground.
1 Samuel 25:23
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey and fell with her face to the ground in front of David.

Why have

Ruth 2:2
Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone who allows me to?”

Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”
2 Samuel 9:8
Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant that you take an interest in a dead dog like me?”
2 Samuel 19:28
For my grandfather’s entire family deserves death from my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. So what further right do I have to keep on making appeals to the king?”
Luke 1:43
How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Romans 12:10
Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Seeing

Isaiah 56:3
No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord
should say,
“The Lord will exclude me from His people”;
and the eunuch should not say,
“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”
Matthew 15:22
Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is cruelly tormented by a demon.”
Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry
and you gave Me something to eat;
I was thirsty
and you gave Me something to drink;
I was a stranger and you took Me in;
Luke 7:6
Jesus went with them, and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell Him, “Lord, don’t trouble Yourself, since I am not worthy to have You come under my roof.
Luke 17:16
He fell facedown at His feet, thanking Him. And he was a Samaritan.

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