Genesis 17:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Abraham fell face down. Then he laughed  and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ’

Cross References

Revelation 11:16

The twenty-four elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell face down and worshipped God,

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it   and was glad.’

Genesis 21:6

Sarah said, ‘God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.’  ,

Genesis 18:12

So she laughed to herself: ‘After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I have delight? ’

Genesis 17:3

Then Abram fell face down and God spoke with him:

Ezekiel 1:28

The appearance of the brilliant light all around was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day.  This was the appearance of the likeness of the Lord’s glory.  When I saw it, I fell face down and heard a voice speaking.

Revelation 5:8

When he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp  and golden bowls  filled with incense,  which are the prayers of the saints.

Job 1:20

Then Job stood up, tore  his robe, and shaved  his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped,

Daniel 8:17

So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell face down.  ‘Son of man,’ he said to me, ‘understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.’

1 Chronicles 21:16

When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, covered in sackcloth,  fell face down.

Judges 13:20

When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the Lord went up in its flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell face down on the ground.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face down to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening,  as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

Joshua 5:14

‘Neither,’ he replied. ‘I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.’ Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in homage  and asked him, ‘What does my lord want to say to his servant? ’

Deuteronomy 9:25

‘I fell down in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angering him.

Numbers 16:45

‘Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly.’  But they fell face down.

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron fell face down  and said, ‘God, God who gives breath to all,  , when one man sins, will you vent your wrath on the whole community? ’

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell face down in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.

Leviticus 9:24

Fire came from the Lord and consumed  the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted  and fell face down.

Matthew 2:11

Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshipped him.  Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 1:18

‘How can I know this? ’ Zechariah asked the angel. ‘For I am an old man, and my wife is well on in years.’

Genesis 17:18

So Abraham said to God, ‘If only Ishmael were acceptable  to you! ’

Genesis 18:11

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years.  Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Genesis 21:5

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Genesis 21:7

She also said, ‘Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him  in his old age.’