Genesis 21

1Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.Cross-references: Gen 17:16 · Gen 17:19 · Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 18:14 · Gen 50:24 · +14 more

2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.Cross-references: Gen 17:19 · Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 18:14 · 2Ki 4:16 · Luke 1:24 · +5 more

3Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.Cross-references: Gen 17:19 · Gen 21:6 · Gen 21:12 · Gen 22:2 · Josh 24:3 · Matt 1:2 · +3 more

4Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.Cross-references: Gen 17:10 · Ex 12:48 · Lev 12:3 · Deut 12:32 · Luke 1:6 · Luke 1:59 · +3 more

5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Gen 17:17 · Rom 4:19

6Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”Cross-references: Gen 17:17 · Gen 18:12 · 1Sam 1:26 · Ps 113:9 · Ps 126:2 · Isa 49:15 · +9 more

7She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”Cross-references: Gen 18:11 · Num 23:23 · Deut 4:32 · Ps 86:8 · Ps 86:10 · Isa 49:21 · +3 more

8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.Cross-references: Gen 19:3 · Gen 26:30 · Gen 29:22 · Gen 40:20 · Judg 14:10 · Judg 14:12 · +7 more

9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.Cross-references: Gen 16:1 · Gen 16:3 · Gen 16:15 · Gen 17:20 · 2Ki 2:23 · 2Chr 30:10 · +11 more

10Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”Cross-references: Gen 17:19 · Gen 17:21 · Gen 20:11 · Gen 22:10 · Gen 25:6 · Gen 25:19 · +9 more

11The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.Cross-references: Gen 17:18 · Gen 22:1 · 2Sam 18:33 · Matt 10:37 · Heb 12:11

12God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.Cross-references: Gen 17:19 · Gen 17:21 · 1Sam 8:7 · 1Sam 8:9 · Isa 46:10 · Rom 9:7 · +1 more

13I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”Cross-references: Gen 16:10 · Gen 17:20 · Gen 21:18 · Gen 25:12

14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.Cross-references: Gen 16:7 · Gen 19:27 · Gen 21:31 · Gen 21:33 · Gen 22:3 · Gen 22:19 · +15 more

15The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.Cross-references: Gen 21:14 · Ex 15:22 · Ex 17:1 · 2Ki 3:9 · Ps 63:1 · Isa 44:12 · +1 more

16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.Cross-references: Gen 27:38 · Gen 29:11 · Gen 44:34 · Judg 2:4 · Ruth 1:9 · 1Sam 24:16 · +6 more

17God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 16:9 · Gen 16:11 · Gen 46:3 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 14:13 · +16 more

18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”Cross-references: Gen 16:10 · Gen 17:20 · Gen 21:13 · Gen 25:12 · 1Chr 1:29

19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.Cross-references: Num 22:31 · 2Ki 6:17 · Isa 35:5 · Luke 24:16

20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.Cross-references: Gen 10:9 · Gen 16:12 · Gen 17:20 · Gen 25:27 · Gen 27:3 · Gen 28:15 · +7 more

21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 24:3 · Gen 26:34 · Gen 27:46 · Num 10:12 · Num 12:16 · Num 13:3 · +4 more

22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.Cross-references: Gen 20:2 · Gen 20:17 · Gen 26:26 · Gen 26:28 · Gen 28:15 · Gen 30:27 · +11 more

23Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”Cross-references: Gen 14:22 · Gen 20:14 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 26:28 · Gen 31:44 · Gen 31:53 · +10 more

24Abraham said, “I will swear.”Cross-references: Gen 14:13 · Rom 12:18 · Heb 6:16

25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.Cross-references: Gen 13:7 · Gen 26:15 · Gen 29:8 · Ex 2:15 · Judg 1:15 · Prov 17:10 · +3 more

26Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”Cross-references: Gen 13:7 · 2Ki 5:20

27Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.Cross-references: Gen 14:22 · Gen 26:28 · Gen 31:44 · 1Sam 18:3 · Prov 17:8 · Prov 18:16 · +6 more

28Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”Cross-references: Gen 33:8 · Ex 12:26 · 1Sam 15:14

30He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”Cross-references: Gen 31:44 · Gen 31:52 · Josh 22:27 · Josh 24:27

31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.Cross-references: Gen 21:14 · Gen 26:23 · Gen 26:33 · Josh 15:28 · Judg 20:1 · 2Sam 17:11 · +1 more

32So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.Cross-references: Gen 10:14 · Gen 14:13 · Gen 21:27 · Gen 26:8 · Gen 26:14 · Gen 31:53 · +3 more

33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.Cross-references: Gen 4:26 · Gen 12:8 · Gen 26:23 · Gen 26:25 · Gen 26:33 · Deut 16:21 · +10 more

34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.Cross-references: Gen 20:1 · 1Chr 29:15 · Ps 39:12 · Heb 11:9 · Heb 11:13 · 1Pet 2:11