Genesis 17:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Cross References

Genesis 17:18

And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!”

Genesis 17:3

Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him,

Genesis 18:11

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Genesis 18:12

So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?”

Genesis 21:5

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

Genesis 21:6

And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me.”

Genesis 21:7

And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

1 Chronicles 21:16

And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.

Ezekiel 1:28

Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Daniel 8:17

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened and fell upon my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”

Leviticus 9:24

And fire came forth from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?”

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.

Matthew 2:11

and going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Luke 1:18

And 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

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

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Joshua 5:14

And he said, “No; but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, “What does my lord bid his servant?”

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

Revelation 11:16

And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,

Revelation 5:8

And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints;

Judges 13:20

And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.