Genesis 21:9

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Summary

Genesis 21:9

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

Sarah

Genesis 16:3

Genesis 17:20

Egyptian

Genesis 16:1

Mocking

General references

Proverbs 22:10

Bible References

Sarah

Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.

And [as for] Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him {exceedingly}. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Egyptian

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name [was] Hagar.

Mocking

Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!"

And it happened [that] the runners were passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and up to Zebulun, but they were laughing at them and mocking them.

But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.

Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, [he] became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews.

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

[As] with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me {all day}, "Where [is] your God?"

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

Even by his acts, a {young man} will make himself known, whether his acts are pure and upright.

Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into [the] hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman.

And others {experienced mocking and flogging}, and in addition bonds and imprisonment.

General references

Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out; quarrel and abuse will cease.