Genesis 17:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And Abraham said unto God, O 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 her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 ¶ [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, 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, 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 the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.

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    19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.

    20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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

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

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

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

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

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    18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

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

  • Gen 21:17-18
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    17 And 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].

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

  • Gen 18:18
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    18 Seeing 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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    11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

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

  • Gen 17:15
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    15 ¶ And 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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    2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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

  • Gen 15:2
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    2 ¶ And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?

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    15 ¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:7
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    7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in his old age.

  • Gen 20:17
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    17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].

  • Gen 17:23
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    23 ¶ And 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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    25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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