Quotes about Response

Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”

Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.

In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’

“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.

He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.

They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”

“Why does my lord say these things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.