Genesis 17:17

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Immediately, Abraham bowed with his face touching the ground. He laughed as he thought to himself, “Can a son be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, have a child?”

Cross References

Genesis 17:18

Then Abraham said to God, “Why not let Ishmael be my heir?”

Genesis 17:3

Immediately, Abram bowed with his face touching the ground, and again God spoke to him,

Genesis 18:11

Abraham and Sarah were old. Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

Genesis 18:12

And so Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “Now that I’ve become old, will I enjoy myself again? What’s more, my husband is old!”

Genesis 21:5

Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born.

Genesis 21:6

Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.

Genesis 21:7

Who would have predicted to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet, I have given him a son in his old age.”

1 Chronicles 21:16

When David looked up, he saw the Messenger of the Lord standing between heaven and earth. The Messenger had a sword in his hand and stretched it over Jerusalem. David and the leaders were dressed in sackcloth. They bowed down with their faces touching the ground.

Job 1:20

Job stood up, tore his robe in grief, and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground and worshiped.

Ezekiel 1:28

The brightness all around him looked like a rainbow in the clouds. It was like the Lord’s glory. When I saw it, I immediately bowed down, and I heard someone speaking.

Daniel 8:17

Gabriel came up beside me, and when he came, I was terrified and immediately knelt down. He said to me, “Son of man, understand that the vision is about the end times.”

Leviticus 9:24

Fire came out from the Lord’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar. When all the people saw this, they shouted and bowed with their faces touching the ground.

Numbers 14:5

Immediately, Moses and Aaron bowed with their faces touching the ground in front of the whole community of Israel assembled there.

Numbers 16:22

Immediately, they bowed with their faces touching the ground and said, “O God, you are the God who gives the breath of life to everyone! If one man sins, will you be angry with the whole community?”

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from these people, and let me destroy them in an instant!” Immediately, they bowed with their faces touching the ground.

Matthew 2:11

When they entered the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary. So they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 1:18

Zechariah said to the angel, “What proof is there for this? I’m an old man, and my wife is beyond her childbearing years.”

John 8:56

Your father Abraham was pleased to see that my day was coming. He saw it and was happy.”

Deuteronomy 9:18

Once again I threw myself down in front of the Lord. I went without food and water for 40 days and 40 nights because of the sin you committed. You did what the Lord considered evil and made him furious.

Deuteronomy 9:25

I threw myself down in front of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord said he would destroy you.

Joshua 5:14

He answered, “Neither one! I am here as the commander of the Lord’s army.” Immediately, Joshua bowed with his face touching the ground and worshiped. He asked, “Sir, what do you want to tell me?”

Joshua 7:6

Joshua and the leaders of Israel tore their clothes in grief. They put dust on their heads and bowed down to the ground in front of the Lord’s ark. They stayed there until evening.

Revelation 11:16

Then the 24 leaders, who were sitting on their thrones in God’s presence, immediately bowed, worshiped God,

Revelation 5:8

When the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 leaders bowed in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of God’s holy people.

Judges 13:20

As the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the Messenger of the Lord went up in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they immediately bowed down with their faces touching the ground.