From Nave’s Topical Bible
Ishmael
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 29Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. Son of AbrahamGenesis 16:11Genesis 16:15Genesis 16:161 Chronicles 1:28
- Prayer of Abraham forGenesis 17:18Genesis 17:20
- CircumcisedGenesis 17:23–26
- Promised to be the father of a nationGenesis 16:11Genesis 16:12Genesis 17:20Genesis 21:12Genesis 21:13Genesis 21:18
- Sent away by AbrahamGenesis 21:6–21
- With Isaac buries his fatherGenesis 25:9
- Children ofGenesis 25:12–181 Chronicles 1:29–31
- Daughter of, marries EsauGenesis 28:9Genesis 36:2Genesis 36:3
- Death ofGenesis 25:17Genesis 25:18
- 2. Father Of Zebadiah2 Chronicles 19:11
- 3. A son of Azel1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- 4. One of the captains of hundreds2 Chronicles 23:1
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- 5. A priest of the exileEzra 10:22
- 6. A son of Nethaniah
- Assassinated Gedaliah, governor of Judah under king of Babylon, and takes many Jews captiveJeremiah 40:8–16Jeremiah 41:1–112 Kings 25:23–25
- Defeated by Johanan, and put to flightJeremiah 41:12–15
The passages, in Bible order (29)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 16:11
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
Commentary on Genesis 16:112 voices
Ishmael--Like other Hebrew names, this had a signification, and it is made up of two words--"God hears." The reason is explained.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Ishmael, that is, God will hear; and the reason is, because the Lord hath heard: he hath, and therefore he will. The experience we have had of God's seasonable kindness in distress should encourage us to hope for the like help in the like exigencies. Even there, where there is little cry of devotion, the God of pity hears the cry of affliction: tears speak as well as prayers.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Commentary on Genesis 16:122 voices
He will be a wild man - A wild ass of a man, so the word is: rude, and bold and fearing no man; untamed, untractable, living at large, and impatient of service and restraint. His hand will be against every man - That is his sin, and every man's hand against him - That is his punishment.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
(Verse 12) This will be a rustic man. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him, and he will dwell against the face of all his brothers. In Hebrew, Phara () is written for rustic, which means onager. It signifies that his descendants will dwell in the wilderness, that is, the wandering Saracens, in uncertain lands, who attack and are attacked by all the nations to which the desert is adjacent.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
Commentary on Genesis 16:152 voices
And Hagar bare Abram a son,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And Hagar bare Abram a son, etc. - It appears, therefore, that Hagar returned at the command of the angel, believing the promise that God had made to her.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Genesis 16:16
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
Commentary on Genesis 16:162 voices
It is plausible to say that it was to establish the fact that Hagar was a serious woman and Ishmael an authentic son of Abraham that Scripture went out of its way to remark that Hagar bore a son "to Abram." What follows is clear …
Didymus the Blind· ON GENESIS 249, 398Patristic
And Abram was eighty years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. Which is easily reckoned, for he was seventy five years of age when he left Haran, Gen 12:4; and he had been ten years in Canaan when Hagar was given him by Sarai for his wife, Gen 16:3; and so must be then eighty five years of age, and of course must be eighty six when Ishmael was born.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
Commentary on Genesis 17:182 voices
O that Ishmael might live before thee--natural solicitude of a parent. But God's thoughts are not as man's thoughts [Isa 55:8]. The blessings of the covenant are reserved for Isaac, but common blessings were abundantly promised to Ishmael; and though the visible Church did not descend from his family, yet personally he might, and it is to be hoped did, enjoy its benefits.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
O that Ishmael might live before thee! - Abraham, finding that the covenant was to be established in another branch of his family, felt solicitous for his son Ishmael, whom he considered as necessarily excluded; on which God delivers that most remarkable prophecy which follows in Gen 17:20, and which contains an answer to the prayer and wish of Abraham: And as for Ishmael I have heard thee; so that the object of Abrahams prayer was, that his son Ishmael might be the head of a prosperous and potent people.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Commentary on Genesis 17:202 voices
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee, &c.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Twelve princes shall he beget, etc. - See the names of these twelve princes, Gen 25:12-16. From Ishmael proceeded the various tribes of the Arabs, called also Saracens by Christian writers. They were anciently, and still continue to be, a very numerous and powerful people. It was somewhat wonderful, and not to be foreseen by human sagacity, says Bishop Newton, that a mans whole posterity should so nearly resemble him, and retain the same inclinations, the same habits, and the same customs, throughout all ages!
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Genesis 17:23–26
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
Commentary on Genesis 17:23–262 voices
And Abraham took Ishmael his son,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And Abraham took Ishmael, etc. - Had not Abraham, his son, (who was of age to judge for himself), and all the family, been fully convinced that this thing was of God, they could not have submitted to it. A rite so painful, so repugnant to every feeling of delicacy, and every way revolting to nature, could never have sprung up in the imagination of man. To this day the Jews practice it as a Divine ordinance; and all the Arabians do the same.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Genesis 21:6–21
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Commentary on Genesis 21:6–212 voices
In our father Isaac or the origin is sufficiently expressed, either by grace or by glory: to whom all glory redounds, that he was born to Abraham, a reward for such a worthy and admirable man. Nor is it surprising, since he preceded in the figure of the Lord's generation and passion.
Ambrose of Milan· On Isaac and the Soul, 397Patristic
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh,.... This she said on occasion of the name of her son Isaac, which name her husband had given him by divine direction, and to which she assented.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Commentary on Genesis 21:122 voices
In Isaac shall thy seed be called - Here God shows the propriety of attending to the counsel of Sarah; and lest Abraham, in whose eyes the thing was grievous, should feel distressed on the occasion, God renews his promises to Ishmael and his posterity.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
And God said unto Abraham,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 21:13
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Commentary on Genesis 21:132 voices
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,.... A great nation, as is promised, Gen 17:20; and such the Ishmaelites and Saracens have been, and the Turks now are, the descendants of Ishmael.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
(2.) Many are full of the blessings of God's providence that are strangers to the blessings of his covenant. (3.) The children of this world often fare the better, as to outward things, for their relation to the children of God. God's Mercy to Hagar and Ishmael.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Genesis 21:18
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
Commentary on Genesis 21:182 voices
Arise, lift up the lad,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Note, God's readiness to help us when we are in trouble must not slacken, but quicken, our endeavours to help ourselves. (2.) He repeats the promise concerning her son, that he should be a great nation, as a reason why she should bestir herself to help him.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Commentary on Genesis 25:92 voices
Here is nothing recorded of the pomp or ceremony of his funeral; only we are told, his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him - It was the last office of respect they had to pay to their good father.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah,.... Isaac, though the younger brother, is set first, because he was born of the lawful wife of Abraham, the free woman, whereas Ishmael was born of a concubine and a bondwoman; Isaac was heir not only to Abraham's temporal estate, but of the promise made concerning the Messiah, (not so Ishmael,) and was on all accounts the greater man.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 25:12–18
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Commentary on Genesis 25:12–182 voices
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,.... Or the genealogy of his posterity; and which is given to show that the Lord was not unmindful of his promise made to Abraham, concerning the multiplication of his seed, Gen 16:10, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham; see Gen 16:1.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
These are the generations of Ishmael - The object of the inspired writer seems to be to show how the promises of God were fulfilled to both the branches of Abrahams family. Isaac has been already referred to; God blessed him according to the promise. He had also promised to multiply Ishmael, and an account of his generation is introduced to show how exactly the promise had also been fulfilled to him.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
Commentary on Genesis 25:171 voice
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years,.... one hundred and thirty seven years old.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 25:18
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
Commentary on Genesis 25:182 voices
They dwelt from Havilah unto Shur - The descendants of Ishmael possessed all that country which extends from east to west, from Havilah on the Euphrates, near its junction with the Tigris, to the desert of Shur eastward of Egypt; and which extends along the isthmus of Suez, which separates the Red Sea from the Mediterranean. As thou goest toward Assyria - These words, says Calmet, may refer either to Egypt, to Shur, or to Havilah. The desert of Shur is on the road from Egypt to Assyria in traversing Arabia Petraea, and in passing by the country of Havilah.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
Commentary on Genesis 28:92 voices
Then went Esau unto Ishmael,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Then went Esau unto Ishmael - Those who are apt to take every thing by the wrong handle, and who think it was utterly impossible for Esau to do any right action, have classed his taking a daughter of Ishmael among his crimes; whereas there is nothing more plain than that he did this with a sincere desire to obey and please his parents.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
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