Genesis 16:15

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

Updated 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 Kadesh and Bered.

16And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:18And Abraham said to God, Let this Ishmael 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 double cave, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is over against Mamre:

Genesis 28:9Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, a wife in addition to his other wives.

1 Chronicles 1:28And the 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 →

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