Miracles

How Nave’s arranged it

• CATALOGUE OF
• Creation of the worldGenesis 1
• The great floodGenesis 7Genesis 8
• The confusion of languagesGenesis 11:1–9
• The fire on Abraham's sacrificeGenesis 15:17
• The conception of IsaacGenesis 17:17Genesis 18:12Genesis 21:2
• The destruction of SodomGenesis 19
• Lot's wife turned into a pillar of saltGenesis 19:26
• The closing of the wombs of Abimelech's householdGenesis 20:17Genesis 20:18
• The opening of Hagar's eyesGenesis 21:19
• The conception of Jacob and EsauGenesis 25:21
• The opening of Rachel's wombGenesis 30:22

The passages, in Bible order (385)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 1:1

   In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 1:12 voices

   “God the Father through the Son created out of nothing everything that is not God.

   “THIS is, no doubt, a literal and accurate account of God's first day's work in the creation of the world, but the first creation is not the subject of this morning's discourse—we would rather direct your minds to the second creation of God. Every man who is saved by Divine Grace is a new creation. The great work which Jesus Christ is accomplishing in the world, by the Holy Spirit through the Word, is the making all things new. We believe the old creation to have been typical of the new and we shall so use it.

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2. Genesis 7:1

   Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 7:11 voice

   “(5.) This call to Noah was a type of the call which the gospel gives to poor sinners. Christ is an ark already prepared, in whom alone we can be safe when death and judgment come. Now the burden of the song is, "Come, come;" the word says, "Come;" ministers say, "Come;" the Spirit says, "Come, come into the ark." 2.

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3. Genesis 8:1

   But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 8:11 voice

   “And the Lord brought a spirit upon the earth, and the water ceased (Genesis VIII, 1). I do not think this is said in such a way that we should understand the spirit as the name for wind. For the wind could not have dried up the flood. Otherwise, since the sea is stirred up daily by winds, it would certainly be emptied.

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4. Genesis 11:1–9

   Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 11:1–91 voice

   “If there were any different languages before the flood, yet Noah's only, which it is likely was the same with Adam's, was preserved through the flood, and continued after it.

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5. Genesis 15:17

   When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 15:171 voice

   “Smoking furnace and a burning lamp - Probably the smoking furnace might be designed as an emblem of the sore afflictions of the Israelites in Egypt; but the burning lamp was certainly the symbol of the Divine presence, which, passing between the pieces, ratified the covenant with Abram, as the following verse immediately states.

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6. Genesis 17:17

   Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 17:172 voices

   “Then Abraham - laughed - I am astonished to find learned and pious men considering this as a token of Abraham’s weakness of faith or unbelief, when they have the most positive assurance from the Spirit of God himself that Abraham was not weak but strong in the faith; that he staggered not at the promise through unbelief, but gave glory to God, Rom 4:19, Rom 4:

   “Now it was that Abraham rejoiced to see Christ's day. Now he saw it and was glad ( John viii. 56 ); for, as he saw heaven in the promise of Canaan, so he saw Christ in the promise of Isaac.

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7. Genesis 18:12

   So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 18:122 voices

   “Therefore Sarah laughed within herself--Long delay seems to have weakened faith. Sarah treated the announcement as incredible, and when taxed with the silent sneer, she added falsehood to distrust. It was an aggravated offense (Ac 5:4), and nothing but grace saved her (Ro 9:18).

   “(Verse 12.) But Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure? It is much differently read in Hebrew: And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I have withered, shall I have pleasure? Also note that where we have translated as pleasure, it is written as delight in Hebrew. Symmachus translated this passage as: After I have grown old, shall I have youth?

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8. Genesis 19:1

   Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 19:11 voice

   “Lot was not inside Sodom "but at the gate." I might have said, just as Abraham was sitting outside his tent, out of hospitality, even at an inconvenient time (for it was the middle of the day) on the lookout for travelers, so his relative and the imitator of his morality "was sitting at the gate" ready to invite those passing through the land, even though evening had now come. For he surely knew the impiety of the Sodomites and that there was no rest for the stranger in that place.

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9. Genesis 19:26

   But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 19:262 voices

   “But whether it was from irresistible curiosity or perturbation of feeling, or that she was about to return to save something, his wife lingered, and while thus disobeying the parting counsel, "to look not back, nor stay in all the plain" [Ge 19:17], the torrent of liquid lava enveloped her so that she became the victim of her supine indolence or sinful rashness.

   “But let us return to Lot, who, fleeing the destruction of Sodom with his wife and daughters after he had received the command from the angels to not look back, was proceeding to Zoar. But his wife became negligent of the command. "She looked back"; she violated the imposed law; "she became a little statue of salt." Do we think there was so much evil in this transgression, that the woman, because she looked behind her, incurred the destruction that she appeared to be fleeing by divine favor?

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10. Genesis 20:17

    Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—

    ›Commentary on Genesis 20:171 voice

    But it does not seem to me superfluous that mention is made not only of Abim-elech's wife but also of his handmaids, especially in that place that says, "God healed them, and they bore children. For he had closed [their wombs] that they might not bear."

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11. Genesis 20:18

    for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 20:181 voice

    “For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs - Probably by means of some disease with which he had smitten them, hence it is said they were healed at Abraham’s intercession; and this seems necessarily to imply that they had been afflicted by some disease that rendered it impossible for them to have children till it was removed. And possibly this disease, as Dr. Dodd conjectures, had afflicted Abimelech, and by this he was withheld, Gen 20:6, from defiling Abraham’s bed.

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12. Genesis 21:2

    So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

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13. Genesis 21:19

    Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 21:191 voice

    “God opened her eyes - These words appear to me to mean no more than that God directed her to a well, which probably was at no great distance from the place in which she then was; and therefore she is commanded, Gen 21:18, to support the lad, literally, to make her hand strong in his behalf - namely, that he might reach the well and quench his thirst.

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14. Genesis 25:21

    Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

    ›Commentary on Genesis 25:212 voices

    “Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife - Isaac and Rebekah had now lived nineteen years together without having a child; for he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, Gen 25:20, and he was threescore years of age when Jacob and Esau were born, Gen 25:26. Hence it is evident they had lived nineteen years together without having a child. The form of the original in this place is worthy of notice: Isaac entreated Jehovah, לנכח אשתו lenochach ishto, directly, purposely, especially, for his wife.

    “Isaac was forty years old when he was married; though he was an only son, and the person from whom the promised seed was to come, yet he made no haste to marry.

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15. Genesis 30:22

    Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

    ›Commentary on Genesis 30:221 voice

    “And God hearkened to her - After the severe reproof which Rachel had received from her husband, Gen 30:2, it appears that she sought God by prayer, and that he heard her; so that her prayer and faith obtained what her impatience and unbelief had prevented.

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16. Exodus 3:2

    There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

    ›Commentary on Exodus 3:22 voices

    “A fire, therefore, being in the midst of such a desert bush was a "great sight." It is generally supposed to have been emblematic of the Israelites' condition in Egypt--oppressed by a grinding servitude and a bloody persecution, and yet, in spite of the cruel policy that was bent on annihilating them, they continued as numerous and thriving as ever.

    “When the almighty Lord of the universe began to legislate through the Word and decided to make his power visible to Moses, he sent Moses a divine vision with the appearance of light, in the burning bush. Now a bramble bush is full of thorns. So too when the Word was concluding his legislation and his stay among men as their Lord, again he permitted himself to be crowned with thorns as a mystic symbol.

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