Genesis 21:1 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

The LORD came to help Sarah and did for her what he had promised.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

ASV:

And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

BBE:

And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

DBY:

And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

ERV:

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

JPS:

And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.

WBS:

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

WEB:

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

YLT:

And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken;

Genesis 21:1 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 17:16 "I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

Genesis 17:21 "But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."

Genesis 18:10 He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.

Genesis 18:14 "Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."

Galatians 4:23 But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

21:1-8 Few under the Old Testament were brought into the world with such expectations as Isaac. He was in this a type of Christ, that Seed which the holy God so long promised, and holy men so long expected. He was born according to the promise, at the set time of which God had spoken. God's promised mercies will certainly come at the time which He sets, and that is the best time. Isaac means laughter, and there was good reason for the name, ch. 17:17; 18:13. When the Sun of comfort is risen upon the soul, it is good to remember how welcome the dawning of the day was. When Sarah received the promise, she laughed with distrust and doubt. When God gives us the mercies we began to despair of, we ought to remember with sorrow and shame our sinful distrust of his power and promise, when we were in pursuit of them. This mercy filled Sarah with joy and wonder. God's favours to his covenant people are such as surpass their own and others' thoughts and expectations: who could imagine that he should do so much for those that deserve so little, nay, for those that deserve so ill? Who would have said that God should send his Son to die for us, his Spirit to make us holy, his angels to attend us? Who would have said that such great sins should be pardoned, such mean services accepted, and such worthless worms taken into covenant? A short account of Isaac's infancy is given. God's blessing upon the nursing of children, and the preservation of them through the perils of the infant age, are to be acknowledged as signal instances of the care and tenderness of the Divine providence. See Ps 22:9,10; Ho 11:1,2.

CONC:

Note Promised Remembered Sarah Spoken Undertaken Visited

Gracious Note Promised Remembered Sarah Undertaken Visited

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