Genesis 17:17
And Abraham fell on his face and laughed,—and said in his heart To one a hundred years old, shall a child be born? And shall even Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
18And Abraham said unto God,—Oh that, Ishmael, might live before thee!
Cross References
Genesis 17:3And Abram fell on his face,—and God spake with him, saying:
Genesis 18:12So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old?
Genesis 21:6And Sarah said, A laughing, hath God made for me,—Everyone that heareth will laugh with me.
Numbers 14:5Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces,—before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 16:45Lift yourselves up out of the midst of this assembly, that I may consume them, as in a moment,—And they fell upon their faces.
Deuteronomy 9:25Thus, then lay I prostrate before Yahweh, the forty days and the forty nights that I did lie prostrate,—because Yahweh spake of destroying you.
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 →