Genesis 17:22

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this time, in the next year.

23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all his homeborn servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraham, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:33And the Lord departed, when he left off speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Genesis 35:13And God went up from him from the place where he spoke with him.

Numbers 12:6And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.

Judges 6:21And the angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened bread; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

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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