Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
In Context
14Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahai-roi. lo, it is betweene Kadesh and Bered.
16And Abram was foure score and sixe yeere olde, when Hagar bare him Ishmael.
Cross References
Genesis 17:18And Abraham saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight.
Genesis 17:25And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeere olde, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.
Genesis 25:9And his sonnes, Izhak and Ishmael buryed him in the caue of Machpelah, in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Zohar the Hittite, before Mamre.
Genesis 28:9Then went Esau to Ishmael, and tooke vnto the wiues, which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nabaioth, to be his wife.
1 Chronicles 1:28The sonnes of Abraham were Izhak, and Ishmael.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:11-15
The Promise Concerning Ishmael. ( b. c. 1911.) 10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And she called… Read the whole commentary →