12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, ‘After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?’ 13 The Lord said to Abraham, ‘Why did Sarah laugh, and say, “Shall I indeed bear a child, now
Sarah, also spelled Sarai, in the Old Testament, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Sarah was childless until she was 90 years old. God promised Abraham that she would be “a mother of nations” (Genesis 17:16) and that she would conceive and bear a son, but Sarah did not believe...
Abraham's life is now winding down. Sarah has been buried. If you could find one or two words to describe Abraham's life, "blessing" would be one of them. "Faith" would be another. He has wealth, long life, and a child who will be his heir. Now Abraham must look to providing a...
Ten years after returning to Canaan, Abraham and Sarah were still childless. Sarah suggested that Abraham have a child with her Egyptian handmaid Hagar, to which he agreed. This produced stress between Sarah and Hagar, as Sarah protested to her husband that the handmaid no longer regarded her ...
Contemplates the biblical story of Abraham and Sarah who were promised a child in their old age. How Sarah laughed at God's promise, which seemed impossible; Lessons for us today as we think about impossibilities; Jesus' teachings on the subject;How to respond to the seemingly impossible.Zee...
Paul emphasizes that only the child of the “free woman,” namely Sarah, was born on account of the covenantal promise of offspring (Gen. 17:1–21, 18:9–14); the “child of the slave” is merely the result of fleshly sexual intercourse between Abraham and Hagar (16:4).[4] Isaa...
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the slave woman of Sarah. English Revised VersionNow these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:GOD'S WORD® TranslationThis is the account of the descendants of Abraham's ...
Sarah even tried to arrange for Abraham to have a child through another woman, her servant, Hagar. But, as you can imagine, surrogacy did not turn out well. Sarah soon could not take the painful sight of another woman happily playing with Abraham’s child, and banished them both. Sarah ...
I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.” / Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?” ......
These 37 years were surely some of the best years of Sarah’s life as she raised the child that she and Abraham had hoped and prayed for most of their adult lives. The Torah shows Sarah as her husband’s partner in life and his equal. In Jewish oral tradition, they are both considere...