Genesis 21:9

Sarah sees Ishmael, Hagar's son, mocking. His scorn toward Isaac triggers the coming separation.

Cross-references · 17

• Gal 4:29But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
• Gen 16:15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
• Gal 4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
• Gen 16:1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
• Prov 20:11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
• Ps 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
• Lam 1:7Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.
• 2 Chr 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• 2 Chr 30:10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
• Ps 44:13–14You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
• Ps 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• Gen 16:3–6Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
• Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
• Neh 4:1–5But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
• Gen 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
• 2 Kgs 2:23–24He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
• Job 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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