Genesis 21:2

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So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

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  • Gal 4:22 : 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
  • Heb 11:11 : 11 By 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 17:21 : 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
  • 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.”
  • Acts 7:8 : 8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
  • 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.
  • Rom 9:9 : 9 For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
  • 2 Kgs 4:16-17 : 16 He said,“About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said,“No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!” 17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
  • Luke 1:24-25 : 24 After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said, 25 “This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”
  • Luke 1:36 : 36 “And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age– although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 21:1
    86%

    1The Birth of Isaac The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

  • Gen 21:3-8
    6 verses
    85%

    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!”

    8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

  • Gen 17:21
    83%

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

  • Gen 18:10-15
    6 verses
    81%

    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 17:15-19
    5 verses
    80%

    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?”

    18Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”

    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.

  • Rom 9:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

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

    10Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–

  • Heb 11:11
    78%

    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 24:36
    77%

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

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17
    75%

    17The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

  • Rom 4:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Against 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.”

    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.

  • Gen 21:12
    74%

    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 16:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

    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 25:19
    74%

    19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Gen 24:1
    73%

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

  • Gen 11:30
    73%

    30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

  • Gen 20:2
    73%

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

  • Gen 17:24
    72%

    24Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;

  • Gen 25:12
    72%

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

  • Heb 11:18
    71%

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

  • Gen 17:26
    71%

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

  • Gen 21:10
    71%

    10So she said to Abraham,“Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

  • Gen 22:20
    71%

    20After these things Abraham was told,“Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor–