Genesis 20:7

God commands Abimelech to restore Sarah and tells him Abraham, a prophet, will pray for him so he may live. Abraham is named God's prophet and intercessor.

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• Job 42:8Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
• 1 Sam 7:5Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
• Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• 2 Sam 24:17David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
• Rev 11:5–6If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
• Num 16:32–33The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
• 1 Kgs 13:6The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
• 2 Kgs 5:11But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
• 1 Chr 16:22“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
• Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• Ezek 3:18When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
• 1 Cor 14:4He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
• Gen 12:17Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
• Gen 2:17but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
• Ezek 33:8When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
• Ps 105:9–15the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
• Exod 12:1–3Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
• 1 Sam 12:23Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
• Lev 6:4then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
• Ezek 33:14–16Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
• Exod 7:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
• Gen 20:18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
• Job 34:19Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
• 1 Sam 7:8The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
• 1 Jn 5:16If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
• Jer 27:18But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.
• Exod 18:17Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
• 1 Kgs 18:1–46After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
• Heb 1:1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
• Jas 5:14–16Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
• Gen 12:15The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
• Exod 4:16He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
• Lev 6:7The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”
• Jer 14:11Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.
• Jer 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
• 2 Kgs 19:2–4He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
• 1 Sam 12:19All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

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