Genesis 21:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Birth of Isaac The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

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  • Gen 18:10 : 10 One of them said,“I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!”(Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”
  • 1 Sam 2:21 : 21 And indeed the LORD attended to Hannah. She got pregnant and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew up before the LORD.
  • Gal 4:23 : 23 But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 God 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.
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
  • Gal 4:28 : 28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before time began.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”
  • Ps 12:6 : 6 The LORD’s words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  • Rom 4:17-20 : 17 (as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do. 18 Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.” 19 Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  • Exod 3:16 : 16 “Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them,‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, appeared to me– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob– saying,“I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 and the people believed. When they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
  • Ruth 1:6 : 6 So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the LORD had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 21:2-7
    6 verses
    86%

    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.

    4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

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

    6Sarah said,“God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

    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 18:9-15
    7 verses
    79%

    9Then they asked him,“Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied,“There, in the tent.”

    10One of them said,“I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!”(Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

    11Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

    12So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

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

    14Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”

    15Then Sarah lied, saying,“I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the LORD said,“No! You did laugh.”

  • Gen 17:21
    77%

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

  • Gen 17:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

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

    16I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

    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?”

  • Rom 9:9
    75%

    9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

  • Gen 17:19
    75%

    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.

  • Heb 11:11
    74%

    11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

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

    18For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

  • Gen 24:36
    72%

    36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

  • 1 Sam 2:21
    72%

    21And indeed the LORD attended to Hannah. She got pregnant and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew up before the LORD.

  • Gen 16:2
    71%

    2So Sarai said to Abram,“Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.

  • Gen 24:1
    70%

    1The Wife for Isaac Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the LORD had blessed him in everything.

  • Gen 20:2
    70%

    2Abraham said about his wife Sarah,“She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

  • Gen 18:1
    70%

    1Three Special Visitors The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

  • Gen 22:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15The LORD’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

    16and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1The Sacrifice of Isaac Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him,“Abraham!”“Here I am!” Abraham replied.

  • Gen 21:12
    69%

    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 21:22
    69%

    22At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham,“God is with you in all that you do.

  • Rom 4:19
    69%

    19Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.