Genesis 21:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

What man or woman could believe so improbable a thing? Or, who but a God could have foreseen and foretold it? She saith children, though she had but one child, either by a usual enallage of the plural number for the singular, whereby the word sons or daughters is used when there was but one, as Genesis 36:25, Genesis 46:23 Numbers 26:8; or presaging, that having received from God a new strength, she might have more children. By her expression she showeth all mothers what their duty is, viz. to give their children suck when they are able to do it; and that neither greatness of quality, nor multitude of business, nor other difficulties and inconveniences, will be a sufficient excuse to those that neglect it.

Genesis 21:7

7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.