Genesis 21:9
◄ One day/During the feast► Sarah noticed that Hagar’s son Ishmael was ◄making fun of/playing with► Isaac.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 16:3So Abram ◄slept with/had sex with► Hagar, his wife Sarai’s slave from Egypt. This happened ten years after they went to live in Canaan land. Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his secondary wife.
Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his descendants [MTY] to also become a great nation.
2 Chronicles 30:10The messengers went to all the towns in the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far north as the tribe of Zebulun, and gave them this message, but most of the people there scorned them and ridiculed them.
Nehemiah 4:1When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the city wall, he was very angry. He was enraged/furious. He made fun of us Jews.
Psalms 22:6But you have not rescued me People despise me and consider that I am not a man; they think that I am as worthless as a worm! Everyone [HYP] scorns me and despises me.
Psalms 44:13People who live in nations near us make fun of us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
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 →