Genesis 17:18

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Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 4:12 : 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many say,“Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, LORD!
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 As for me, you uphold me because of my integrity; you allow me permanent access to your presence.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

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  • Gen 17:19-21
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    19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

    20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

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

  • Gen 17:17
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    17Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself,“Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

  • Gen 21:12
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    12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

  • Gen 21:5
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    5(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

  • Gen 18:13
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    13The LORD said to Abraham,“Why did Sarah laugh and say,‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’

  • Heb 11:18
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    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

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

  • Gen 21:17-18
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    17But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her,“What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.

    18Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

  • Gen 18:18
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    18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

  • Gen 16:11
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    11Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.

  • Gen 17:3
    72%

    3Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

  • Gen 17:15
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    15Then God said to Abraham,“As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

    3Abraham named his son– whom Sarah bore to him– Isaac.

  • Gen 15:2
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    2But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

  • Gen 16:15
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    15So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:7
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    7She went on to say,“Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

  • Gen 20:17
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    17Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

  • Gen 17:23
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    23Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household(whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    72%

    25his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

    26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12The Sons of Ishmael This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.