Genesis 21:1

The Lord visits Sarah and does for her exactly as He had promised. God's faithfulness to His word is emphatically declared.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 12:6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
• Gen 18:10Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
• Gen 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
• Gal 4:23His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
• Gen 17:19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
• 1 Sam 2:21So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
• Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
• Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
• Ruth 1:6When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
• Rom 4:17–20As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
• Gal 4:28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
• Gen 50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
• Gen 17:16And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
• Gen 17:21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
• Exod 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
• Ps 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
• Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
• Exod 3:16Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
• Exod 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
• Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

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