Genesis 17:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Abraham fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at ninety?”

Cross References

Genesis 17:18

So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael could live in your favor!”

Genesis 17:3

Abram fell face down and God said to him:

Genesis 18:11

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years, and Sarah had stopped having her menstrual periods.

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself and said, “Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, am I still to have sexual pleasure?”

Genesis 21:5

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

Genesis 21:6

Sarah then said, “God has given me cause to laugh, and all who hear of it will laugh with me.

Genesis 21:7

Who would ever have told Abraham,” she added, “that Sarah would nurse children! Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

1 Chronicles 21:16

When David raised his eyes, he saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, drawn sword in hand stretched out against Jerusalem. David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell face down,

Job 1:20

Then Job arose and tore his cloak and cut off his hair. He fell to the ground and worshiped.

Ezekiel 1:28

Just like the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day so was the appearance of brilliance that surrounded him. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speak.

Daniel 8:17

When he came near where I was standing, I fell prostrate in terror. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision refers to the end time.”

Leviticus 9:24

Fire came forth from the Lord’s presence and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. Seeing this, all the people shouted with joy and fell prostrate.

Numbers 14:5

But Moses and Aaron fell prostrate before the whole assembled community of the Israelites;

Numbers 16:22

But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”

Matthew 2:11

and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 1:18

Then Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.”

John 8:56

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

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then, as before, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no food, I drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed in the sight of the Lord, doing wrong and provoking him.

Deuteronomy 9:25

Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the Lord, because he had threatened to destroy you.

Joshua 5:14

He replied, “Neither. I am the commander of the army of the Lord: now I have come.” Then Joshua fell down to the ground in worship, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”

Joshua 7:6

Joshua, together with the elders of Israel, tore their garments and fell face down before the ark of the Lord until evening; and they threw dust on their heads.

Revelation 11:16

The twenty-four elders who sat on their thrones before God prostrated themselves and worshiped God

Revelation 5:8

When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.

Judges 13:20

as the flame rose to the heavens from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground;