… now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us …

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the …

But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman …

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will …

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which …

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

… will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust …

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, …

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the …

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, …

… boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard …

… hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have …

saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. …

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now …

… or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

… here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.