Genesis 21:8

And the lad groweth, and is weaned, and Abraham maketh a great banquet in the day of Isaac's being weaned;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

In Context

7She saith also, 'Who hath said to Abraham, Sarah hath suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?'

9and Sarah seeth the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she hath borne to Abraham, mocking,

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Cross References

Genesis 26:30And he maketh for them a banquet, and they eat and drink,

Genesis 40:20And it cometh to pass, on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he maketh a banquet to all his servants, and lifteth up the head of the chief of the butlers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants,

Judges 14:12And Samson saith to them, 'Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me [in] the seven days of the banquet, and have found [it] out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

1 Samuel 1:24and she causeth him to go up with her when she hath weaned him, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she bringeth him into the house of Jehovah at Shiloh, and the youth [is but] a youth.

2 Samuel 3:20and Abner cometh in unto David, to Hebron, and with him twenty men, and David maketh for Abner, and for the men who [are] with him, a banquet.

Esther 1:3in the third year of his reign, he hath made a banquet to all his heads and his servants; of the force of Persia and Media, the chiefs and heads of the provinces [are] before him,

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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