Genesis 17:18

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

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

In Context

17And Abraham falls on his face, and laughs, and says in his heart, “Is one born to the son of one hundred years? Or does Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?”

19and God says, “Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to his seed after him.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:14behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me.”

Psalms 4:6Many are saying, “Who shows us good?” Lift on us the light of Your face, O YHWH,

Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have been separating || Between you and your God, || And your sins have hidden || The Presence from you—from hearing.

Acts 2:39for the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those far off, as many as the LORD our God will call.”

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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