The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
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