6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, …
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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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