Genesis 21:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 17:18 : 18 And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
  • Gen 22:1-2 : 1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. 2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
  • 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

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  • Gen 21:12-13
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    12But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

    13And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    10So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

  • Gen 26:35
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    35And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.

  • Gen 22:9-10
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    9And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

    10And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.

  • Gen 18:20
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    20And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

  • Gen 21:16-17
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    16And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

    17And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

  • Gen 22:12-13
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    12And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

    13And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.

  • Gen 17:18
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    18And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

  • Gen 16:5-6
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    5And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

    6And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

  • Gen 22:2
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    2And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

  • Gen 22:16
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    16Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

    3And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:

  • Gal 4:30
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    30What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

  • Gal 4:22
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    22Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

  • Gen 24:6
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    6And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

    18Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

  • Gen 16:11
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    11And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

  • Gen 16:15
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    15And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

  • Gen 15:3
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    3And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.