Genesis 21

Question 1

Genesis 21:1

Answer 1

Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

Question 2

Genesis 21:2

Answer 2

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.

Question 3

Genesis 21:3

Answer 3

Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.

Question 4

Genesis 21:4

Answer 4

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.

Question 5

Genesis 21:5

Answer 5

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Question 6

Genesis 21:6

Answer 6

Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

Question 7

Genesis 21:7

Answer 7

And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Question 8

Genesis 21:8

Answer 8

The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.

Question 9

Genesis 21:9

Answer 9

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,

Question 10

Genesis 21:10

Answer 10

and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

Question 11

Genesis 21:11

Answer 11

The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.

Question 12

Genesis 21:12

Answer 12

But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

Question 13

Genesis 21:13

Answer 13

I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”

Question 14

Genesis 21:14

Answer 14

Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.

Question 15

Genesis 21:15

Answer 15

When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.

Question 16

Genesis 21:16

Answer 16

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there nearby, she began to sob.

Question 17

Genesis 21:17

Answer 17

God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

Question 18

Genesis 21:18

Answer 18

Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Question 19

Genesis 21:19

Answer 19

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

Question 20

Genesis 21:20

Answer 20

God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

Question 21

Genesis 21:21

Answer 21

While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

Question 22

Genesis 21:22

Answer 22

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

Question 23

Genesis 21:23

Answer 23

Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you are living as an alien the same kindness I have shown to you.”

Question 24

Genesis 21:24

Answer 24

Abraham said, “I swear it.”

Question 25

Genesis 21:25

Answer 25

Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

Question 26

Genesis 21:26

Answer 26

But Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”

Question 27

Genesis 21:27

Answer 27

So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a treaty.

Question 28

Genesis 21:28

Answer 28

Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,

Question 29

Genesis 21:29

Answer 29

and Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”

Question 30

Genesis 21:30

Answer 30

He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”

Question 31

Genesis 21:31

Answer 31

So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

Question 32

Genesis 21:32

Answer 32

After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.

Question 33

Genesis 21:33

Answer 33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

Question 34

Genesis 21:34

Answer 34

And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.