Genesis 17:21
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
22When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
Cross References
Genesis 18:10Then the leader of the group said, “I will return to you ◄about this time/in the springtime► next year, and to your amazement, your wife Sarah will have an infant son.” It happened that Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind the one who was speaking.
Genesis 21:2She became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham when he was very old, at the time God promised it would happen.
Genesis 26:2but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
Genesis 48:15Then he ◄blessed/asked God to bless► Joseph and his sons, saying, “My grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac conducted their lives as God desired, and to this very day God has led me and taken care of me as a shepherd leads and cares for his sheep [MET].
Exodus 3:6Then he said, “I am God, whom your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshiped.” So Moses/I covered his/my face, because he/I was afraid that God would kill him/me if he/I looked at him.
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 →