The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. Gen 14:13Gen 13:18Gen 48:3Act 7:2Gen 17:22Gen 26:22Ch 1:7Gen 17:1-3 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, Heb 13:2Gen 18:22Gen 19:1Jdg 13:3Gen 23:7Gen 18:16Gen 32:24Gen 43:26 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant. Gen 32:5 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. Gen 19:2Gen 24:32Gen 43:24Luk 7:441Sa 25:41Jhn 13:5-151Ti 5:10 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” Psa 104:15Jdg 13:15Jdg 6:18Gen 19:8Gen 33:10Jdg 19:5Mat 6:11Isa 3:1
They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs 1 of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” Gal 5:13Mat 13:33Rom 12:131Pe 4:9Act 16:15Heb 13:2Isa 32:8Luk 10:38-40 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. Jdg 13:15-16Amo 6:4Gen 19:3Luk 15:23Luk 15:27Luk 15:30Mal 1:14Mat 22:4 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate. Gen 19:3Act 10:41Deu 32:14Gal 5:13Jdg 13:15Jdg 5:25Jhn 12:2Luk 12:37
They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” Tit 2:5Gen 24:67Gen 4:9Gen 31:33
He said, “There, in the tent.”
He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Gen 21:2Gen 17:21Rom 9:8-92Ki 4:16-17Gen 17:16Gen 17:19Gal 4:23Gal 4:28
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Gen 17:17Heb 11:11-12Luk 1:36Rom 4:18-21Gen 17:24Heb 11:19Lev 15:19Luk 1:18 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” 1Pe 3:6Gen 17:17Luk 1:18-20Gen 18:13Gen 21:6-7Luk 1:34-35Eph 5:33Heb 11:11-12
The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’ Jhn 2:25 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son.” Luk 1:37Mat 19:26Mrk 10:27Jer 32:27Eph 3:20Job 42:2Php 4:13Jer 32:17
Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. Pro 28:131Jn 1:8Eph 4:23Psa 44:21Gen 12:13Gen 4:9Jhn 18:17Jhn 18:25-27
He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. Act 21:53Jn 1:6Act 15:3Act 20:38Rom 15:24 The LORD said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do, Amo 3:7Psa 25:14Jhn 15:15Gen 19:24Jas 2:232Ch 20:72Ki 4:27 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? Gal 3:8Gen 26:4Gal 3:14Gen 12:2-3Gen 22:17-18Act 3:25-26Eph 1:3Psa 72:17 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.” 1Ti 3:4-5Deu 6:6-7Deu 4:9-10Eph 6:42Ti 3:15Pro 6:20-22Deu 32:461Ch 28:9 The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, Gen 19:13Ezk 16:49-50Isa 3:9Gen 13:13Gen 4:10Jas 5:4Isa 5:7Jer 14:7 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.” Exo 3:8Gen 11:5Jos 22:22Deu 13:3Deu 8:2Exo 33:5Gen 11:7Jer 17:10
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. Gen 19:11Ti 2:1Act 7:55Ezk 22:30Jer 18:20Psa 106:23Gen 18:1-2Jer 15:1 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? Num 16:222Sa 24:17Gen 20:4Gen 18:25Heb 10:22Job 34:17Psa 11:4-7Rom 3:5-6 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? Isa 1:9Jer 5:1Gen 18:32Mat 7:13-14Act 27:24 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?” Job 8:20Isa 3:10-11Job 8:3Psa 58:11Deu 32:4Psa 94:2Rom 3:5-62Co 5:10
The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Jer 5:1Mat 24:22Ezk 22:30Isa 65:8Isa 10:22Isa 19:24Isa 6:13 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes. Isa 6:5Gen 3:19Luk 5:81Co 15:47-48Isa 64:8Job 30:19Ecc 12:7Gen 18:30-32 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” 1Ki 20:32-33Gen 18:26Gen 18:29Job 23:3-4Num 14:17-19
He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” Eph 6:18Heb 4:16
He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” Isa 55:8-9Job 40:4Psa 10:17Est 4:11-16Gen 44:18Heb 12:28-29Isa 6:5Jdg 6:39
He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” Luk 11:8Eph 6:18Gen 18:27Heb 10:20-22Heb 4:16Luk 18:1Mat 7:11Mat 7:7
He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” Jas 5:15-17Jdg 6:39Mat 7:71Jn 5:15-16Eph 3:20Mic 7:18Exo 32:14Exo 32:9-10
He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
The LORD went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. Gen 32:26Gen 18:22Gen 18:16Gen 31:55