Genesis 21:7

And she said—Who would have announced to Abraham, Sarah hath suckled children? yet have I borne a son, for his old age!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, A laughing, hath God made for me,—Everyone that heareth will laugh with me.

8And the child grew, and was weaned,—and Abraham made a great banquet, on the day of the weaning of Isaac.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11But Abraham and Sarah, were old, far gone in days,—it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Deuteronomy 4:32For ask, I pray you, of the former days which were before thee, even from the day when God created man upon the earth, yea from one end of the heavens even to the other end of the heavens,—whether aught was ever brought to pass, like this great thing, or was ever heard of like it:

1 Kings 11:20And the sister of Tahpenes bare to him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaned him, in the house of Pharaoh,—and so it came about, that Genubath was of the household of Pharaoh, among the sons of Pharaoh.

Psalms 86:10For great thou art, and doest wondrous things, Thou, O God, of thyself alone.

Isaiah 66:8Who hath heard the like of this? Who hath seen the like of these things? Can a land, be made to bring forth in one day? Or a nation, be born, at one time? As soon as she travaileth, Zion hath also given birth to her children.

2 Thessalonians 1:10Whensoever he shall come, to be made all-glorious in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all who believed,—because our witness unto you was believed,—in that day.

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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