Genesis 21:18

Get up! Pick up the youth and grab his hand, because I will make a great nation of his descendants."

Genesis 21:13

Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl's son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring."

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.

Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I've heard you. I'll bless him, and he'll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he'll father twelve tribal leaders, and I'll cause his descendants to become a great nation.

Genesis 25:12-18

Now this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham.

1 Chronicles 1:29-31

These are their genealogies: the firstborn Ishmael fathered Nebaioth, and then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

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I will

Genesis 21:13
Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl's son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring."
Genesis 16:10
The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.
Genesis 17:20
And as for Ishmael, I've heard you. I'll bless him, and he'll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he'll father twelve tribal leaders, and I'll cause his descendants to become a great nation.
Genesis 25:12
Now this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham.
1 Chronicles 1:29
These are their genealogies: the firstborn Ishmael fathered Nebaioth, and then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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Genesis 21:13
Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl's son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring."

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