Genesis 21:11

Good News Translation

This troubled Abraham very much, because Ishmael also was his son.

Cross References

Genesis 17:18

He asked God, “Why not let Ishmael be my heir?”

Genesis 21:12

But God said to Abraham, “Don't be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was overcome with grief. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he cried, “O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son! If only I had died in your place, my son! Absalom, my son!”

Matthew 10:37

“Those who love their father or mother more than me are not fit to be my disciples; those who love their son or daughter more than me are not fit to be my disciples.

Hebrews 12:11

When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.