Genesis 12:10
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Genesis 12:10 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Genesis 12:10 is a verse from the book of Genesis in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the ..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Genesis 12:10 — KJV
“And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.”
— Genesis 12:10 (KJV)
Genesis 12:10 in Context — About the Book of Genesis
Genesis is the book of beginnings — creation, the fall, the flood, and the call of Abraham. It answers the oldest questions: where we came from, why the world is broken, and how God begins His rescue plan through one family. Every major theme in the Bible is planted here as a seed.
Cross-References for Genesis 12:10
“And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:”
Shares key themes with Genesis 12:10: went, down, into
“For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 12:10: went, down, into
“And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 12:10: famine, land, into
“And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. corrupted: or, destroyed”
Shares key themes with Genesis 12:10: land, into, egypt
“And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.”
Shares key themes with Genesis 12:10: land, went, egypt
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