Genesis 17:18

American Standard Version (1901)

And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 4:12 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many there are that say, Who will show us [any] good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

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    21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

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    17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

  • Gen 21:12
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    12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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    5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

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    13And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?

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    18[ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:17-18
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    17And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

    18Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great nation.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

  • Gen 16:11
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    11And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction.

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    3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

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    15And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

    3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

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    2And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

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    15And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael.

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    7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.

  • Gen 20:17
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    17And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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    12Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: