Genesis 16:11

World English Bible (2000)

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

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  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Exod 2:23-24 : 23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
  • Gen 29:32-35 : 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me." 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon. 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi. 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
  • Gen 41:51-52 : 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." 52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
  • Exod 3:9 : 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."
  • Ps 22:24 : 24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Matt 1:21-23 : 21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins." 22 Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
  • Luke 1:31 : 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'
  • Luke 1:63 : 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.
  • Job 38:41 : 41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 16:4-10
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    84%

    4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

    5Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

    6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

    7The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

    8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

    9The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

    10The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

  • Gen 16:12-16
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    12He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."

    13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

    14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

    16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

  • Gen 17:18-21
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    78%

    18Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

    20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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

  • Gen 21:12-18
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    12God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

    13I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

    14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

    16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

    17God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

    18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

  • Gen 25:12
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    12Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

  • Judg 13:3
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    3The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

  • Gen 16:1-2
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    73%

    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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

  • Gen 21:10
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    10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    25Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

    26In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Gen 25:16
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    16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

  • Gen 17:16
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    16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,