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Want to know what the Bible says about Ishmael? Here are 104 Bible verses about Ishmael from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Galatians 4:29 NIV
At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
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Genesis 17:19-21 NIV
19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for 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. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
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Acts 17:10-11 NIV
10 As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
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Genesis 16:7 NIV
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
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2 Chronicles 23:1 NIV
In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.
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Genesis 25:6 NIV
But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
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1 Chronicles 19:11 NIV
He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother, and they were deployed against the Ammonites.
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Jeremiah 41:3 NIV
Ishmael also killed all the men of Judah who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Babylonian soldiers who were there.
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Genesis 21:14-16 NIV
14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.
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Galatians 4:22 NIV
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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