Genesis 21:1

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“Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.”

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BSBPD

“Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 21:1 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 17:16And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
  2. Genesis 17:19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
  3. Genesis 17:21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
  4. Genesis 18:10Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
  5. Genesis 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
  6. Genesis 50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  7. Exodus 3:16Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
  8. Exodus 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
  9. Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  10. Ruth 1:6When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
  11. 1 Samuel 2:21So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
  12. 2 Kings 4:17But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
  13. Psalms 12:6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
  14. Psalms 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
  15. Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
  16. Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
  17. Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  18. Romans 4:17As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
  19. Galatians 4:23His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
  20. Galatians 4:28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
  21. Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

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