Genesis 18:10 Cross References - NSB

¹⁰ He said: »Next year I will give you and Sarah a son.« (Sarah was listening in the tent door behind him.)

¹⁰ »I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.«

¹⁶ »I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.«

¹⁹ God replied: »Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son! You will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as a long lasting covenant for his descendants after him.

²¹ »But my covenant I will establish with Isaac. Sarah will bear him to you by this time next year.«

¹³ Jehovah said to Abraham: »Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' ¹⁴ »Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life. Sarah shall have a son!«

² Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him.

¹⁵ The angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from heaven a second time. ¹⁶ He said: »I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son,

³ Jehovah’s angel appeared to her and said: »You have not been able to have children, but you will become pregnant and have a son. ⁴ »Do not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. ⁵ »After your son is born never cut his hair. This is because from the day of his birth he will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite. He will begin the work of delivering Israel from the Philistines.«

¹⁶ Elisha said to her: »By this time next year you will hold a son in your arms.« »Please do not lie to me. You are a man of God!« She said. ¹⁷ Just as Elisha said, about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.

¹³ »Have no fear Zechariah,« said the angel, »for God has heard your prayer. Your wife Elisabeth will have a son and his name will be John.

⁸ That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as seed. ⁹ The word of promise: »According to this time I will come and Sarah will have a son.«

²³ How is it that the son by the slave woman is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise?

²⁸ Brothers, we are children who belong to the promise, the same as Isaac was.