Genesis 17:17

New English Translation

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

Cross References

Genesis 17:18

Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live before you!”

Genesis 17:3

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

Genesis 18:11

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

Genesis 21:5

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

Genesis 21:6

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

Genesis 21:7

She went on to say, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

1 Chronicles 21:16

David looked up and saw the Lord’s messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Ezekiel 1:28

like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Daniel 8:17

So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. Then he said to me, “Understand, son of man, that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”

Leviticus 9:24

Then fire went out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground.

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

Numbers 16:22

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Matthew 2:11

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 1:18

Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.”

John 8:56

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 9:25

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

Joshua 5:14

He answered, “Truly I am the commander of the Lord’s army. Now I have arrived!” Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground and asked, “What does my master want to say to his servant?”

Joshua 7:6

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt on their heads.

Revelation 11:16

Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God

Revelation 5:8

and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).

Judges 13:20

As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.