Genesis 21:7

Then she also said, “No one would have said to Abraham that some day Sarah would nurse a child, but I have given birth to a son when Abraham is very old.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

In Context

6And Sarah said, “ Although I was sad before because I did not have any children, God has now enabled me to laugh, and everyone who hears about what God has done for me will laugh with me.”

8The baby grew and was weaned when he was about three years old. On that day, Abraham prepared a large feast to celebrate.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was far past the time of when she could bear children.

Deuteronomy 4:32“Now think about the past, about the time before you were born, about all the time since God first created people here on the earth. You could search everywhere, in heaven and on the earth. ◄Has anything like this ever happened that is as great as what Yahweh did for the Israeli people?/Certainly nothing has ever happened that is as great as what Yahweh did for the Israeli people.► [RHQ] ◄Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?/Certainly no one has ever heard of anything like this.► [RHQ]

1 Kings 11:20Later Hadad’s wife gave birth to a son named Genubath. The sister of Tahpenes ◄raised him/brought him up► in the palace, where he lived with the king’s sons.

Psalms 86:10You are great, and you do wonderful/marvelous things; only you are God.

Isaiah 66:8Certainly no one [RHQ] ever heard about such a thing happening, and no one has ever seen it happen. Similarly, no one ever [RHQ] heard that a nation was created in one instant, not even in one day. But Jerusalem is like [MET] a woman who gives birth to children as soon as she starts to have birth pains.

2 Thessalonians 1:10The Lord Jesus will do this when he comes back from heaven at the time that God has decided. As a result, all we who are his people will praise him because of what he has done for his own people, and all we believers will marvel at our Lord because of what he has done. And you will be there, too, because you believed what we testified to you.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:2-9

The Birth of Isaac. ( b. c. 1897.) 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God… Read the whole commentary →

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