3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Few under the Old Testament were brought into the world with such expectation as Isaac was, not for the sake of any great person eminence at which he was to arrive, but because he was to be, in this very thing, a type of Christ, that seed which the holy God had so long promised and holy men so long expected. In this account of the first days of Isaac we may observe, I. The fulfilling of God’s prom…
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