Prayer
In Bible
Eliezer, Steward of Abraham, Prays for A Bride for Isaac
(Gen 24:12-14)
Eliezer, Steward of Abraham, Prays for A Bride for Isaac
Genesis
24:12–14
12 He
said, “O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and
show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.
13
“Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city
are coming out to draw water;
14 now
may it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may
drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be
the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know
that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.”
Eliezer’s
prayer was answered because it was according to God’s word.
Genesis
12:1–3
1 Now
the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Genesis
12:7
7 The
Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I
will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared
to him.
Genesis
13:15
15 for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to
your descendants forever.
Genesis
15:18
18 On that
day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates.
Genesis
17:7
7 “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants
after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God
to you and to your descendants after you.
Genesis
17:19
19 But
God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son,
and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Genesis
21:12
12 But
God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of
the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through
Isaac your descendants shall be named.
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