Genesis 17:22

When God had finished speaking with Abraham he left him.

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In The King James Version

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

In Context

21But it's with Isaac that I will keep my agreement, the son Sarah will give birth to about this time next year.”

23That day Abraham circumcised his son Ishmael as well as all those born in his household or purchased, in fact every male among the members of Abraham's household, just as God had told him.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:33The Lord left once he had finished speaking with Abraham, and Abraham went home.

Genesis 35:13Then God left the place where he had been speaking to Jacob.

Numbers 12:6“Now listen to my words, he told them. If you had prophets, I the Lord would reveal myself to them in visions; I would communicate with them in dreams.

Judges 6:21The angel of the Lord held out the staff he was holding and touched the meat and unleavened bread with the tip. Fire flamed from the rock and burned up the meat and unleavened bread. Then the angel vanished.

John 1:18While no one has ever seen God, God the one and only, who is close beside the Father, has shown us what God is like.

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 →

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