Bible Verses About Answers To Prayer

But as for Yishma'el, I have heard you. I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and give him many descendants. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Here, your servant has already found favor in your sight, and you have shown me even greater mercy by saving my life. But I can't escape to the hills, because I'm afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Look, there's a town nearby to flee to, and it's a small one. Please let me escape there - isn't it just a small one? -and that way I will stay alive."

He replied, "All right, I agree to what you have asked. I won't overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Before he had finished speaking, Rivkah the daughter of B'tu'el son of Milkah the wife of Nachor Avraham's brother, came out with her jug on her shoulder.

The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, never having had sexual relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jug and came up.

The servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug to drink."

"Drink, my lord," she replied, and immediately lowered her jug onto her arm and let him drink.

When she was through letting him drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they have drunk their fill."

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough, then ran again to the well to draw water, and kept on drawing water for all his camels.

The man gazed at her in silence, waiting to find out whether ADONAI had made his trip successful or not.

When the camels were done drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing one-fifth of an ounce and two gold bracelets weighing four ounces

and asked, "Whose daughter are you? Tell me, please. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

She answered, "I am the daughter of B'tu'el the son Milkah bore to Nachor,"

adding, "We have plenty of straw and fodder, and room for staying overnight."

The man bowed his head and prostrated himself before ADONAI.

Then he said, "Blessed be ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master; because ADONAI has guided me to the house of my master's kinsmen."

and Ya'akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When he saw that he did not defeat Ya'akov, he struck Ya'akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him.

The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya'akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me."

The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya'akov."

Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya'akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed."

Ya'akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there.

Ya'akov called the place P'ni-El [face of God], "Because I have seen God face to face, yet my life is spared."

Sometime during those many years the king of Egypt died, but the people of Isra'el still groaned under the yoke of slavery, and they cried out, and their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.