18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
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For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Here is, I. The promise made to Abraham of a son by Sarai , that son in whom the promise made to him should be fulfilled, that he should be the father of many nations; for she also shall be a mother of nations, and kings of people shall be of her , Gen. 17:16. Note, 1. God reveals the purposes of his good-will to his people by degrees. God had told Abraham long before that he should have a son, bu…
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