Genesis 21:9 Cross References - NSB

⁹ Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was laughing in mockery.

¹ Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

³ After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife. ⁴ Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. ⁵ Then Sarai said to Abram: »You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.« ⁶ »Your servant is in your hands,« Abram said. »Do with her whatever you think best.« Then Sarai mistreated Hagar. So she ran away from her.

¹⁵ Hagar bore Abram a son. Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

²⁰ »Concerning Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

²³ Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: »Get out of here, baldy!« ²⁴ Elisha turned around and glared at them. He cursed them in the name of Jehovah. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.

¹⁰ So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

¹⁶ They mocked God’s messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

¹ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews. ² And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: »What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?« ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was with him, and he said: Such is their building that if a fox climbs to the top of it, their stonewall will be broken down. ⁴ Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners. ⁵ Do not let their wrongdoing be covered or their sin be washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

¹ »Men younger than I am make fun of me now! Their fathers have always been so worthless that I would not let them help dogs guard sheep.

⁶ Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people.

¹⁰ As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: »Where is your God?«

¹³ You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. ¹⁴ You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

¹¹ Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

⁷ Jerusalem remembers in her days of sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things that were hers in the past. When her people were captive to the power of her adversary she had no helper. Her attackers desired her and made fun of her in her destruction.

²² It is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman, and one by the freewoman.

²⁹ Just like then, the son who was conceived in a natural way according to the flesh persecuted the son conceived in a spiritual way. That is exactly what is happening now!

³⁶ And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.