Genesis 16:15

And Agar bore a son to Abram; and Abram called the name of his son which Agar bore to him, Ismael.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

In Context

14Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Cades and Barad.

16And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Agar bore Ismael to Abram.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:18And Abraam said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee.

Genesis 17:25And Ismael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 25:9And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, in the field of Ephron the son of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre:

Genesis 28:9Esau went to Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam, the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his other wives.

1 Chronicles 1:28And the sons of Abraam, Isaac, and Ismael.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:11-15

The Promise Concerning Ishmael. ( b. c. 1911.) 10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And she called… Read the whole commentary →

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