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Genesis 17:26

in Genesis 17

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

KJV

In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

This verse in Genesis 17

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

This site's exposition

his son Ishmael was thirteen

on Genesis 17:25-27

Ishmael is thirteen, the exact length of the silence since 16:16. Gill records the Arab custom of circumcising at thirteen, taken from Ishmael's age here. The chapter ends with every male in the household circumcised, those born there and those purchased.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. This is repeated, that it might be taken notice of that both were circumcised according to the command of God, and on the very day in which it was given.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּעֶ֙צֶם֙on [the] substance of

    beetzemH6106126 times

  • הַיּ֣וֹםthe day

    haiyomH31172304 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

  • נִמּ֖וֹלhe was circumcised

    nimolH413537 times

  • אַבְרָהָ֑םAbraham

    ʾavrahamH85175 times

  • וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֖אלand Ishmael

    veyishmaelH345848 times

  • בְּנֽוֹ׃son his

    benoH11214930 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 12:4

    So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 11:8

      By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

    • Genesis 11:31

      And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan.…

    • Genesis 11:27

      This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

  • Through

    Psalms 119:60

    I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 95:7–8

      For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

    • Ecclesiastes 9:10

      Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

    • Galatians 1:16

      to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

    • Proverbs 27:1

      Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

    • Ezekiel 10:6–8

      When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.