Genesis 32:20 Cross References

Genesis 32:20

20: And be sure to say, `Your servant Jacob is right behind us.'" Jacob's plan was to appease Esau with the presents before meeting him face to face. "Perhaps," Jacob hoped, "he will be friendly to us."

Job 42:8

  1. Now take seven young bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was."
  2. So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.

Proverbs 21:14

  1. A secret gift calms anger; a secret bribe pacifies fury.

1 Kings 20:31

  1. Ben-hadad's officers said to him, "Sir, we have heard that the kings of Israel are very merciful. So let's humble ourselves by wearing sackcloth and putting ropes on our heads. Then perhaps King Ahab will let you live."

2 Timothy 2:25

  1. They should gently teach those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people's hearts, and they will believe the truth.

1 Samuel 25:17

  1. You'd better think fast, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He's so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!"
  2. Abigail lost no time. She quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, nearly a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes. She packed them on donkeys and said to her servants,
  3. "Go on ahead. I will follow you shortly." But she didn't tell her husband what she was doing.
  4. As she was riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming toward her.
  5. David had just been saying, "A lot of good it did to help this fellow. We protected his flocks in the wilderness, and nothing he owned was lost or stolen. But he has repaid me evil for good.

Genesis 43:11

  1. So their father, Jacob, finally said to them, "If it can't be avoided, then at least do this. Fill your bags with the best products of the land. Take them to the man as gifts--balm, honey, spices, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Proverbs 15:18

  1. A hothead starts fights; a cool-tempered person tries to stop them.

Proverbs 16:14

  1. The anger of the king is a deadly threat; the wise do what they can to appease it.

Proverbs 6:35

  1. There is no compensation or bribe that will satisfy him.

Jonah 3:9

  1. Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will have pity on us and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us."

1 Samuel 6:5

  1. Make these things to show honor to the God of Israel. Perhaps then he will stop afflicting you, your gods, and your land.
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