God's promised mercies will certainly come at the time which He sets, and that is the best time.
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Friday, 17 October 2014
Genesis 21
And the Lord visited Sarah
as he had said, and the Lord did
unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his
old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the
name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And
Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded
him. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto
him. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear
will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah
should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. And the child grew, and was weaned: and
Abraham made a great feast the same
day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which
she had born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out
this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir
with my son, even with Isaac. And the
thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. And God said
unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto
her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the
bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is
thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a
bottle of water, and gave it unto
Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,
and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness
of Beer-sheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a
bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over
against him, and lift up her voice,
and wept. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to
Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for
God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will
make him a great nation. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water;
and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God
was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an
archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife
out of the land of Egypt. And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and
Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: Now
therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me,
nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but
according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me,
and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. And Abraham said, I will swear. And
Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s
servants had violently taken away. And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done
this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it,
but to day. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and
both of them made a covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? And
he said, For these seven ewe lambs
shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have
digged this well. Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they
sware both of them. Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech
rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the
land of the Philistines. And Abraham
planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. And Abraham
sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
God's promised mercies will certainly come at the time which He sets, and that is the best time.
God's promised mercies will certainly come at the time which He sets, and that is the best time.
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