Genesis 16:15

And Hagar bears a son to Abram; and Abram calls the name of his son, whom Hagar has borne, Ishmael;

Literal Standard Version

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 has one called the well, “The well of the Living One, my beholder”; behold, between Kadesh and Bered.

16and Abram [is] a son of eighty-six years in Hagar’s bearing Ishmael to Abram.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:18And Abraham says to God, “O that Ishmael may live before You”;

Genesis 17:25and his son Ishmael [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

Genesis 25:9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre—

Genesis 28:9and Esau goes to Ishmael, and takes Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, sister of Nebajoth, to his wives, to himself, for a wife.

1 Chronicles 1:28Sons 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 →

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