Genesis 20:7

Modern English Version

Therefore return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet and he will pray for you. Moreover, you will live. However, if you do not return her, know that you will surely die, you and all who are yours.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:15

The princes of Pharaoh saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 12:17

But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Abram’s wife, Sarai.

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

Genesis 20:8

So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants and told them all these things, and the men were very afraid.

Genesis 23:6

“Hear us, my lord. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place that you may bury your dead.”

2 Samuel 24:17

On seeing the angel who was striking down the people, David said to the Lord, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. These sheep, what have they done? Please, let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”

1 Kings 13:6

The king said to the man of God, “Seek the face of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand will be healed.” And the man of God interceded with the Lord, and the king’s hand was healed and became as it was before.

2 Kings 5:11

But Naaman became angry and went away and said to himself, “Behold, he could have come out, and stood and called on the name of the Lord his God, and waved his hand over the infected area, and taken away the leprosy.

1 Chronicles 16:22

saying, “Do not touch My anointed, and do My prophets no harm.”

2 Chronicles 30:18

For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “The Lord is good, and may He pardon everyone

Job 34:19

Yet He is not partial to princes, nor does He regard the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of His hands.

Job 42:8

And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job will pray for you. For him I will accept, lest I deal with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken of Me the thing which is right like My servant Job.”

Psalm 25:14

The secret counsel of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will make His covenant known to them.

Exodus 18:17

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Exodus 4:16

What’s more, he will be your spokesman to the people, and he will be as a mouth for you, and you will be as God to him.

Exodus 7:1

So the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

Jeremiah 14:11

Then the Lord said to me: Do not pray for the good of this people.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, yet My heart would not be with this people. Cast them out of My sight and let them go!

Jeremiah 27:18

But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not go to Babylon.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:8

When I say to the wicked, “O wicked man, you shall surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity. But his blood I will require from your hand.

Leviticus 6:4

then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall return whatever he has stolen, or whatever he has extorted, or whatever was left in storage with him, or the lost item which he found,

Leviticus 6:7

And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.

Acts 8:24

Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me that nothing you have spoken may come upon me.”

1 Corinthians 14:4

He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

Hebrews 1:1

God, who at various times and in diverse ways spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets,

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 John 5:16

If anyone sees his brother commit a sin which does not lead to death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life. This is for those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I do not say that he should pray for it.

1 Samuel 12:19

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we will not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”

1 Samuel 12:23

Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. But I will teach you the good and the right way.

1 Samuel 7:5

Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”

1 Samuel 7:8

The Israelites said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying unto the Lord our God for us, that He might save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”