Cross references
Genesis 16:2
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.”
And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:2 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 3:17 (3 votes) and Genesis 18:10 (3 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 3 to Galatians 4.
Which verses does Genesis 16:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 3:173 votes
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 18:103 votes
Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
- Exodus 21:43 votes
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
- Genesis 3:1–62 votes
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, …
- Genesis 3:122 votes
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
- Genesis 17:162 votes
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
- Genesis 20:182 votes
for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
- Genesis 25:212 votes
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.
- Genesis 30:2–42 votes
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?” Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.” …
- Genesis 30:9–102 votes
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife. And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
- Genesis 30:222 votes
- Psalm 127:32 votes
- Genesis 30:61 vote
- Ruth 4:111 vote
Which verses point to Genesis 16:2?
The 10 strongest of 11.