Abraham
71 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
39 sections
- A Prophet
- Age of, at Different Periods
- Ancestors of, Idolatrous
- And Canaan
- Angels Appear To
- Called Abraham
- Canaan Given To
- Children of
- Circumcision of
- Death
- Defeats Chedorlaomer
- Deferring to Lot, Chooses Hebron
- Divine Call of
- Faith of
- Friend of God
- God's Covenant With
- He Purchases a Place for Her Burial, and Buries Her in a Cave
- His Questions About the Destruction of the Righteous and Wicked in Sodom
- How Regarded by his Descendants
- Independence of, in Character
- Isaac Born To
- Ishmael Born To
- Lives in Bethel
- Lives in Gerar
- Lives in Gerar; Deceives Abimelech Concerning Sarah, his Wife
- Lives in Ur, but Removes to Haran
- Marries Keturah
- Marries Sarah
- Piety of
- Provides a Wife for Isaac
- Sarah, his Wife, Dies
- Sends Hagar and Ishmael Away
- Sojourns in Egypt
- Son of Terah
- Testament of
- Trial of his Faith in the offering of Isaac
- Unselfishness of
- Wealth of
- Witnesses the Destruction of Sodom
A Prophet
- Genesis 20:7 Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die — you and all who belong to you.”
Age of, at Different Periods
- Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
- Genesis 21:5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
- Genesis 25:7 Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
Ancestors of, Idolatrous
- Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
And Canaan
- Genesis 12:4–6 So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. …
- Acts 7:4 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
Angels Appear To
- Genesis 18:1–16 Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. …
- Genesis 22:11 Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
- Genesis 22:15 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
- Genesis 24:7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’— He will send His angel before you so that you can …
Called Abraham
- Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
- Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
Canaan Given To
- Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- Genesis 15:7–21 The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” …
- Ezekiel 33:24 “Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
Children of
- Genesis 16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
- Genesis 21:2–3 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised. …
- Genesis 25:1–4 Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, …
- 1 Chronicles 1:32–34 The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. …
Circumcision of
- Genesis 17:10–14 This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. …
- Genesis 17:23–27 On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money— every male among the members of Abraham’s household— and he circumcised them, just as God had told him. …
Death
- Genesis 15:15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
- Genesis 25:8–10 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people. …
Defeats Chedorlaomer
- Genesis 14:5–24 In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim, …
- Hebrews 7:1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
Deferring to Lot, Chooses Hebron
- Genesis 13:1 So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev— he and his wife and all his possessions— and Lot was with him.
- Genesis 14:13 Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
- Genesis 35:27 Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Divine Call of
- Genesis 12:1–3 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. …
- Joshua 24:3 But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
- Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- Acts 7:2–3 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, …
- Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
Faith of
- Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
- Romans 4:1–22 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered? …
- Galatians 3:6–9 So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” …
- Hebrews 11:8–10 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. …
- Hebrews 11:17–19 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, …
- James 2:21–24 Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? …
Friend of God
- Isaiah 41:8 “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
- James 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
God's Covenant With
- Genesis 15:1 After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
- Genesis 17:1–22 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless. …
- Micah 7:20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
- Luke 1:73 the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
- Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
- Romans 15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
- Hebrews 6:13–14 When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself, …
- Galatians 3:6–18 So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” …
- Galatians 3:29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
- Galatians 4:22–31 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. …
He Purchases a Place for Her Burial, and Buries Her in a Cave
- Genesis 23:3–20 Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites, …
His Questions About the Destruction of the Righteous and Wicked in Sodom
- Genesis 18:23–32 Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? …
How Regarded by his Descendants
- Matthew 3:9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- Luke 13:16 Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
- Luke 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
- Luke 19:9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.
- John 8:33–40 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?” …
Independence of, in Character
- Genesis 14:23 that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
- Genesis 23:6–16 “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.” …
Isaac Born To
- Genesis 21:2–3 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised. …
- Galatians 4:22–30 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. …
Ishmael Born To
- Genesis 16:3 So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- Genesis 16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
Lives in Bethel
- Genesis 12:8 From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
Lives in Gerar
- Genesis 20:1 Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
- Genesis 21:22–34 At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do. …
Lives in Gerar; Deceives Abimelech Concerning Sarah, his Wife
- Genesis 20:1 Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
Lives in Ur, but Removes to Haran
- Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Acts 7:4 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
Marries Keturah
- Genesis 25:1 Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
Marries Sarah
- Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Piety of
- Genesis 12:7–8 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. …
- Genesis 13:4 to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 13:18 So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
- Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Genesis 20:7 Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die — you and all who belong to you.”
- Genesis 21:33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- Genesis 22:3–13 So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated. …
- Genesis 26:5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- Nehemiah 9:7–8 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. …
- Romans 4:16–18 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring — not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. …
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
- Isaiah 41:8 “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
- James 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
Provides a Wife for Isaac
- Genesis 24:1 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
Sarah, his Wife, Dies
- Genesis 23:1–2 Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old. …
Sends Hagar and Ishmael Away
- Genesis 21:10–14 and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!” …
- Galatians 4:22–30 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. …
Sojourns in Egypt
- Genesis 12:10–20 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. …
- Genesis 26:1 Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Son of Terah
- Genesis 11:26–27 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. …
Testament of
- Genesis 25:5–6 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. …
Trial of his Faith in the offering of Isaac
- Genesis 22:1–19 Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered. …
- Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,
- James 2:21 Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
Unselfishness of
- Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
- Genesis 21:25–30 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized, …
Wealth of
- Genesis 13:2 And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
- Genesis 24:35 “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
- Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
Witnesses the Destruction of Sodom
- Genesis 19:27–28 Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. …
Related topics
Abraham in ParadiseAbraham is Blessed by MelchizedekSarahIsaacMamreFaith in the offering up of Isaac
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.