Genesis 21:5
when he was one hundred years old. Indeed, at this stage of his father’s life, Isaac was born.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
In Context
4And he circumcised him on the eighth day, just as God had instructed him,
6And Sarah said: “God has brought laughter to me. Whoever will hear of it will laugh with me.”
Cross References
Genesis 16:16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him.
Genesis 17:17Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
Genesis 25:26Isaac was sixty years old when the little ones were born to him.
Romans 4:19And he was not weakened in faith, nor did he consider his own body to be dead (though he was then almost one hundred years old), nor the womb of Sarah to be dead.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:2-9
The Birth of Isaac. ( b. c. 1897.) 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God… Read the whole commentary →