Genesis 17:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you!

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  • Gen 4:12 : 12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer you shall be on the earth.
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from your face shall I be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth; and it shall come to pass, that anyone who finds me shall slay me.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity and set me before Your face forever.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden 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 forever, for the good of them, and their children after them:
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

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  • Gen 17:19-21
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    19 And God said, Sarah your wife shall indeed bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

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

    21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.

  • Gen 17:17
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    17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?

  • Gen 21:12
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    12 But God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5 And Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

  • Gen 18:13
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    13 And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?

  • Heb 11:18
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    18 of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall 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 to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

    18 Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18 Since 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 to her, Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction.

  • Gen 17:3
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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 to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2 For Sarah conceived and bore 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 who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

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

  • Gen 16:15
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    15 And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called his son's name, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:7
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    7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.

  • Gen 20:17
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    17 So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants; and they bore children.

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

    26 On that very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham: