Genesis 50:24
50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Exodus 3:16
3:16 “Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, appeared to me – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – saying, “I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,
Exodus 4:31
4:31 and the people believed. When they heard
that the
Lord had attended to
the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
Exodus 20:5
20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them,
for I, the
Lord, your God, am a jealous
God, responding to
the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations
of those who reject me,
Ruth 1:6
1:6 So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law,
because while she was living in Moab
she had heard that the
Lord had shown concern
for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.
Ruth 1:1
A Family Tragedy: Famine and Death
1:1 During the time of the judges there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.
Ruth 2:21
2:21 Ruth the Moabite replied, “He even
told me, ‘You may go along beside my servants
until they have finished gathering all my harvest!’”
Psalms 106:4
106:4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people!
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
Luke 1:68
1:68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.
Luke 19:44
19:44 They will demolish you
– you and your children within your walls
– and they will not leave within you one stone
on top of another,
because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
Romans 4:17-20
4:17 (as it is written, “
I have made you the father of many nations”).
He is our father
in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who
makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
4:18 Against hope Abraham
believed
in hope with the result that he became
the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,
“
so will your descendants be.”
4:19 Without being weak in faith, he considered
his own body as dead
(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
4:20 He
did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.