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Want to know what the Bible says about Ishmael? Here are 102 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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Genesis 17:20 NIV
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.
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Genesis 16:12 NIV
He will be a wild donkey of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward all his brothers.
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Genesis 16:15 NIV
So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
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Genesis 28:9 NIV
so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
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Genesis 16:11-12 NIV
11 The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward all his brothers.
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Genesis 16:16 NIV
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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Genesis 16:11 NIV
The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.
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Genesis 25:9 NIV
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
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Genesis 21:18 NIV
Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
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Genesis 21:12 NIV
But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
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Genesis 21:13 NIV
I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
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Genesis 25:17 NIV
Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
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1 Chronicles 1:29-31 NIV
29 These were their descendants:Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31 Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.
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Genesis 36:3 NIV
also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
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Genesis 25:18 NIV
His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.
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Genesis 21:21 NIV
While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 21:15-17 NIV
15 If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, 16 when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. 17 He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.
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Genesis 25:12 NIV
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
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Genesis 17:18 NIV
And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
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Genesis 17:23 NIV
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
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