For Sarah conceived,.... This explains what is meant by the Lord's visiting her, and doing to her according to his word, see Heb 11:11;and bare Abraham a son in his old age; which circumstance is remarked, that the favour might appear the greater, and the more wonderful; or, "unto", or "for his old age" , for the comfort of him in his old age, who having lived so many years under the promise of a son, and in the expectation of one, even of the promised seed, from whom the Messiah should spring, now has one, than which nothing could yield him greater consolation:at the set time of which God had spoken to him, Ge 17:21; God was not only faithful in fulfilling his promise, but in keeping the exact time of it.
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Genesis 21:2
Genesis 21:2
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