Genesis 21:7
She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
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6Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Cross References
Genesis 18:11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Deuteronomy 4:32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
1 Kings 11:20The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house amongst the sons of Pharaoh.
Psalms 86:10For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
Isaiah 66:8Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.
2 Thessalonians 1:10when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired amongst all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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 →