Genesis 21:7

Then she said, “We are so old that no-one thought that Abraham and I could ever have a baby. But now we have a son.”

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In The King James Version

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

In Context

6Sarah said, “God has given me a chance to laugh now, and everyone who hears my story will laugh and be happy with me.”

8Isaac grew and on the day he stopped just having milk and started to eat food, Abraham gave a big party.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11Sarah could not believe it, and so she laughed to herself. She was thinking, “My husband Abraham is really old and I am too old and worn out to have my own baby. I will never be happy that way.”

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 →

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