Genesis 17:18

Modern English Version

Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”

Cross References

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Psalm 41:12

As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and set me in Your presence forever.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, “Who will show us any good?” Lord, let the light of Your countenance shine upon us.

Jeremiah 32:39

And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their good and for their children after them.

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear.

Genesis 4:14

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from Your face will I be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 4:12

From now on when you till the ground, it will not yield for you its best. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Genesis 17:19

Then God said, “No, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

Genesis 21:11

This matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son.