Genesis 21:8

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

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  • Gen 19:3 : 3 But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.
  • Gen 26:30 : 30 So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.
  • Gen 29:22 : 22 So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.
  • Gen 40:20 : 20 On the third day it was Pharaoh’s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He“lifted up” the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.
  • Judg 14:10 : 10 Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.
  • Judg 14:12 : 12 Samson said to them,“I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.
  • 1 Sam 1:22 : 22 But Hannah did not go up with them, because she had told her husband,“Not until the boy is weaned. Then I will bring him so that he may appear before the LORD. And he will remain there from then on.”
  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning’s light.
  • 2 Sam 3:20 : 20 When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.
  • 1 Kgs 3:15 : 15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants.
  • Esth 1:3 : 3 in the third year of his reign he provided a banquet for all his officials and his servants. The army of Persia and Media was present, as well as the nobles and the officials of the provinces.
  • Ps 131:2 : 2 Indeed, I have calmed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am content like a young child.
  • Hos 1:8 : 8 When she had weaned‘No Pity’(Lo-Ruhamah) she conceived again and gave birth to another son.

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  • Gen 21:2-7
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    2 So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

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

    4 When 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.)

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

    7 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!”

  • Gen 21:9-10
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    9 But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian– the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham– mocking.

    10 So 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 17:23-26
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    23 Abraham 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.

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

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

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

  • Gen 18:6-8
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    6 So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah,“Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.”

    7 Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant, who quickly prepared it.

    8 Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

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

  • 30 So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

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

  • Gen 21:12-15
    4 verses
    69%

    12 But 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.

    13 But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

    14 Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

    15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

  • 28 The sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.

  • 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.

  • 9 When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

  • 20 God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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

  • 5 Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

  • 28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

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

  • 24 Then she took him up with her as soon as she had weaned him, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She came to the LORD’s house at Shiloh, and the boy was with them.