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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 21 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Genesis 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/20.htm" title="Genesis 20">◄</a> Genesis 21 <a href="../genesis/22.htm" title="Genesis 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/genesis/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Isaac Is Born</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The LORD graciously remembered <i>and</i> visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for her as He had promised. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Abraham named his son Isaac (laughter), <i>the son</i> to whom Sarah gave birth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Sarah said, “God has made me laugh; all who hear [about our good news] will laugh with me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have given birth to a son by him in his old age.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The child [Isaac] grew and was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. <p class="hdg">Sarah Turns against Hagar</p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now [as time went on] Sarah saw [Ishmael] the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>mocking [Isaac]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The situation <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>distressed Abraham greatly because of his son [Ishmael]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>God said to Abraham, “Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her <i>and</i> do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I will also make a nation of [Ishmael] the son of the maid, because he is your descendant.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and <i>gave her</i> the boy, and sent her <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When the water in the skin was all gone, Hagar abandoned the boy under one of the bushes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And as she sat down opposite him, she raised her voice and wept. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from where he is [resting]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Get up, help the boy up, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [empty] skin with water and gave the boy a drink. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>God was with Ishmael, and he grew <i>and</i> developed; and he lived in the wilderness and became an [expert] archer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. <p class="hdg">Covenant with Abimelech</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me [by breaking any agreements we have] or with my son or with my descendants, but as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me and to the land in which you have sojourned (temporarily lived).” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Abraham said, “I will swear.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water which the servants of Abimelech had [violently] seized [from him], <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this thing. Indeed, you did not tell me, and I did not hear of it until today.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant (binding agreement). <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Abraham said, “You are to accept these seven ewe lambs from me as a witness for me, that I dug this well.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore that place was called Beersheba (Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), because there the two of them swore an oath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD [in prayer], <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>the Eternal God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Abraham lived [as a resident alien] in the land of the Philistines for <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>many days.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> This was probably when the child was about three years of age. Samuel served in the sanctuary from the time that he was weaned (1 Sam 1:22-28), and a Hebrew mother is quoted in 2 Maccabees 7:27 as saying to her son that she nursed him for three years.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Ishmael was old enough to know better than to ridicule or tease his much younger brother, and his behavior was inappropriate and thoughtless.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>was very displeasing in the eyes of Abraham</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Ishmael was born when Abraham was eighty-six years old (Gen 16:16), so Ishmael was about fourteen when Isaac was born, and about sixteen or seventeen years old when Isaac was weaned (Gen 21:8; 2 Chr 31:16).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">33</span> Heb <i>El Olam</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">34</span> I.e. an extended period of time.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>