Genesis 21:7

And again she said, Who should hear, and believe to Abraham, (or And she added, For who would have said to Abraham), that Sarah should give sucking to a son, whom she childed to him, (when he is) now an eld man?

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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, The Lord hath made laughing to me (or The Lord hath made me to laugh), and whoever shall hear (about this) shall laugh with me.

8Therefore the child increased, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast in the day of his weaning (or and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning).

Read all of Genesis 21

Cross References

Genesis 18:11Forsooth both were old, and of great age, and woman’s terms ceased to be made to Sarah (or and a woman’s terms had ceased to be made with Sarah).

Deuteronomy 4:32Ask thou (them) of [the] eld days, or times, that were before thee, from the day in which thy Lord God made of nought man upon (the) earth, ask thou from the one end of heaven unto the tother end thereof, that is, take heed to all things that ever were done, if such a thing was done any time, (Ask thou them about the days of old, or the former times, that were before thee, from the day in which the Lord thy God made a man out of nothing on the earth, ask thou from one end of heaven unto the other, that is, take heed of all the things that were ever done, if at any time such a thing was ever done,)

1 Kings 11:20And the sister of Tahpenes engendered to him a son, Genubath; and Tahpenes nursed him in the house of Pharaoh; and Genubath dwelled before Pharaoh (or and Genubath lived with Pharaoh), with the sons of Pharaoh.

Psalms 86:10For thou art full great, and making marvels, (or For thou art very great, and doing marvellous deeds); thou art God alone.

Isaiah 66:8Who heard ever such a thing, and who saw a thing like this? Whether the earth shall travail of child in one day, either a folk shall be childed together? For why Zion travailed of child, and childed her sons. (Whoever heard of such a thing, and whoever saw something like this? Shall a whole country be born after just one day’s labour, or shall an entire nation be born together? But Zion went into labour, and gave birth to her children all at once.)

2 Thessalonians 1:10when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be made wonderful in all men that believed, for our witnessing is believed on you, in that day. (when he shall come to be glorified among his people, and to be held wonderful among all those who believe, for ye have believed our testimony, on 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 21:7