Genesis 16:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Ver. 11. Thou art with child.] Lyra rendereth it (but not well), Thou shalt conceive. Burgensis saith, Lyra hic delirat; and Matthias Doring (his Hyperaspistes, but an illiterate dunce) a saith as good as nothing in his defence; indignus sane qui nominetur, saith Steuchus of him, ob universam U. T. Scripturam foedissima barbarie conspurcatam :he is not fit to be once named for the sorry notes he hath set upon the whole Old Testament.

a Steuch. ad Gen. xxxvii.

Genesis 16:11

11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;a because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.