Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
In Context
14Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
16And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Cross References
Genesis 17:18And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'
Genesis 17:25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 25:9And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
Genesis 28:9so Esau went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives that he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
1 Chronicles 1:28The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
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 →