Genesis 21:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

She 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!”

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  • Gen 18:11-12 : 11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.) 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”
  • Num 23:23 : 23 For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘Look at what God has done!’
  • Deut 4:32-34 : 32 The Uniqueness of Israel’s God Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it. 33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it? 34 Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
  • Ps 86:8 : 8 None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord! Your exploits are incomparable!
  • Ps 86:10 : 10 For you are great and do amazing things. You alone are God.
  • Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will think to yourself,‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”
  • Isa 66:8 : 8 Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen this? Can a country be brought forth in one day? Can a nation be born in a single moment? Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!
  • Eph 3:10 : 10 The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed– and you did in fact believe our testimony.

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  • Gen 21:1-6
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    84%

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

    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.”

  • Gen 17:15-19
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    82%

    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.

  • Gen 18:9-15
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    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 21:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

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

    9But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian– the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham– mocking.

    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 17:21
    75%

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

  • Gen 24:36
    74%

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

  • Rom 9:9
    71%

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

  • Gen 22:20
    71%

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

  • Heb 11:11
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    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 21:12
    70%

    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 11:30
    70%

    30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

  • Gen 16:2
    70%

    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 20:17-18
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    70%

    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 25:22
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    22But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD,

  • Gen 21:19
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    19Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

  • Gen 15:3
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    3Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

  • Gen 30:23
    69%

    23She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said,“God has taken away my shame.”