Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money every male among the people of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.
24And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Cross References
Genesis 17:10This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee that every male among you be circumcised.
Genesis 18:19For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.
Joshua 5:2At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
Proverbs 27:1Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth.
Acts 16:3Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took [him and] circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.
Romans 4:9[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:16-23
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!… Read the whole commentary →