Saturday, November 12, 2005

Profile: Sarah, Abraham's wife

What kind of a women is Sarah, the wife of Abraham? Did a search on the occurence her name in the Bible. Let's see what the Word says...

(Gen 17:15 MKJV) And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.

(Gen 17:17 MKJV) And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

(Gen 17:19 MKJV) And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed. And you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

(Gen 17:21 MKJV) But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time in the next year.

(Gen 18:6 MKJV) And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes.

(Gen 18:9 MKJV) And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

(Gen 18:10 MKJV) And He said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and lo, Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door which was behind Him.

(Gen 18:11 MKJV) Now Abraham and Sarah were old, far gone in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

(Gen 18:12 MKJV) Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

(Gen 18:13 MKJV) And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I, who am old, truly bear a child?

(Gen 18:14 MKJV) Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return again, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

(Gen 18:15 MKJV) Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And He said, No, but you did laugh.

(Gen 20:2 MKJV) And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

(Gen 20:14 MKJV) And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham. And he restored him Sarah his wife.

(Gen 20:16 MKJV) And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is to you a covering of the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all this, you are reproved.

(Gen 20:18 MKJV) For the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

(Gen 21:1 MKJV) And Jehovah visited Sarah as He had said. And Jehovah did to Sarah as He had spoken.

(Gen 21:2 MKJV) For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

(Gen 21:3 MKJV) And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him (whom Sarah bore to him) Isaac.

(Gen 21:6 MKJV) And Sarah said, God has made me laugh, so that all who hear will laugh with me.

(Gen 21:7 MKJV) And she said, Who could have said to Abraham, will Sarah suckle children? For I have borne a son to him in his old age.

(Gen 21:9 MKJV) And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian (whom she had borne to Abraham) mocking.

(Gen 21:12 MKJV) And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your slave woman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac your Seed shall be called.

(Gen 23:1 MKJV) And Sarah was a hundred twenty seven years old, the years of the life of Sarah.

(Gen 23:2 MKJV) And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

(Gen 23:19 MKJV) And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave at the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

(Gen 24:36 MKJV) And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And he has given to him all that he has.

(Gen 24:67 MKJV) And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

(Gen 25:10 MKJV) the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.

(Gen 25:12 MKJV) And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

(Gen 49:31 MKJV) They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And I buried Leah there;

(Isa 51:2 MKJV) Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

(Rom 4:19 MKJV) And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.

(Rom 9:9 MKJV) For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

(Heb 11:11 MKJV) By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful.

(1Pe 3:6 MKJV) as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good and fearing no terror.

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