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
Show the rest of Nave’s outline (4 more headings) ▾
- 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, 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
And shalt call his name Ishmael - ישמאעל Yishmael, from שמע shama, he heard, and אל El, God; for, says the Angel, The Lord Hath Heard thy affliction. Thus the name of the child must ever keep the mother in remembrance of God’s merciful interposition in her behalf, and remind the child and the man that he was an object of God’s gracious and providential goodness.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 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
He will be a wild man - פרא אדם pere adam. As the root of this word does not appear in the Hebrew Bible, it is probably found in the Arabic farra, to run away, to run wild; and hence the wild ass, from its fleetness and its untamable nature.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
Commentary on Genesis 16:151 voice
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 BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 16:16
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
Commentary on Genesis 16:161 voice
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."
Didymus the Blind· ON GENESIS 249Patristic
- 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 Abraham’s prayer was, that his son Ishmael might be the head of a prosperous and potent people.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 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
If Abraham, in his prayer for Ishmael, meant that he would have the covenant made with him, and the promised seed to come from him, then God did not answer him in the letter, but in that which was equivalent, nay, which was every way better. (1.) God repeats to him the promise of a son by Sarah: She shall bear thee a son indeed.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
This is the fruit of the blessing, as that, ch. i. (2.) They shall be considerable: Twelve princes shall he beget. We may charitably hope that spiritual blessings also were bestowed upon him, though the visible church was not brought out of his loins and the covenant was not lodged in his family.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- 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, 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 BibleEvangelical
This is a good example to masters of families; they and their houses must serve the Lord. Though God's covenant was not established with Ishmael, yet he was circumcised; for children of believing parents, as such, have a right to the privileges of the visible church, and the seals of the covenant, whatever they may prove afterwards.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- 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
God hath made me to laugh - Sarah alludes here to the circumstance mentioned Gen 18:12; and as she seems to use the word to laugh in this place, not in the sense of being incredulous but to express such pleasure or happiness as almost suspends the reasoning faculty for a time, it justifies the observation on the above-named verse. See a similar case in Luk 24:41, where the disciples were so overcome with the good news of our Lord’s resurrection, that it is said, They believed not for joy.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
(2.) When mercies have been long deferred they are the more welcome when they come. (3.) It adds to the comfort of any mercy to have our friends rejoice with us in it: All that hear will laugh with me; for laughing is catching.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- 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 21:121 voice
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 BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 21:13
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Commentary on Genesis 21:131 voice
(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 21:181 voice
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 25:12–181 voice
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 Abraham’s 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 BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
- 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 25:181 voice
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 BibleEvangelical
- 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 - 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 BibleEvangelical
But he only made bad worse, and though he did not marry a "wife of the daughters of Canaan," he married into a family which God had rejected. It showed a partial reformation, but no repentance, for he gave no proofs of abating his vindictive purposes against his brother, nor cherishing that pious spirit that would have gratified his father--he was like Micah (see Jud 17:13).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Show the other 13 passages, book by book ▾
Genesis2
2 Kings1
2 Chronicles2
Ezra1