Genesis 21:7

World English Bible (2000)

She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

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  • Gen 18:11-12 : 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
  • Num 23:23 : 23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!
  • Deut 4:32-34 : 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • Ps 86:8 : 8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
  • Ps 86:10 : 10 For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
  • Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'"
  • Isa 66:8 : 8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
  • Eph 3:10 : 10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.

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  • Gen 21:1-6
    6 verses
    84%

    1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

    3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

    4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

    5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

    6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

  • Gen 17:15-19
    5 verses
    82%

    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16 I 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."

    17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

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

    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 18:9-15
    7 verses
    81%

    9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

    10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

    12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

    13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

    14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 21:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

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

    9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

    10 Therefore 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 17:21
    75%

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

  • Gen 24:36
    74%

    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Rom 9:9
    71%

    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gen 22:20
    71%

    20 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

  • Heb 11:11
    71%

    11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  • Gen 21:12
    70%

    12 God 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.

  • Gen 11:30
    70%

    30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 16:2
    70%

    2 Sarai 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.

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 25:22
    69%

    22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

  • Gen 21:19
    69%

    19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

  • Gen 15:3
    69%

    3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

  • Gen 30:23
    69%

    23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."