And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said,.... To Abraham, Gen 17:16; in a way of mercy and kindness, by fulfilling his promise, giving strength to conceive and bear a child; see Sa1 2:21,
and the…
- The Birth of Isaac 7. מלל mı̂lēl “speak,” an ancient and therefore solemn and poetical word. 14. חמת chêmet “bottle,” akin to חמה chāmâh, “surround, enclose,” and הוּם chûm “black. באר שׁבע…
Adam Clarke
The Lord visited Sarah - That is, God fulfilled his promise to Sarah by giving her, at the advanced age of ninety, power to conceive and bring forth a son.
Long-looked-for comes at last. The vision concerning the promised seed is for an appointed time, and now, at the end, it speaks, and does not lie; few under the Old Testament were brought into the…
Cambridge Bible
visited Cf. 1Sa 2:21; Luk 1:68. The word is used for the dealings of God, sometimes, as here, in blessing, and sometimes in punishment.
The two clauses of this verse are identical in meaning: the…
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