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Isaac and Sarah
How Isaac and Sarah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Sarah was a parent of Isaac.
Sarah bore Isaac in her old age after years of barrenness. At his birth she said, "God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me."
For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age
Genesis 21:2, King James Version
whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac
Genesis 21:3, King James Version
But Sarai was barren; she had no child
Genesis 11:30, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 21:1-7
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 11:30
30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 21:1-7
1And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7And 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.
King James Version