Question: What was the name of Abraham and Sarah's son?
Answer: Isaac. (Genesis 21:1-3)
Comments: Isaac was the second person named by God before his birth (the first was his half-brother Ishmael, Genesis 16:11). The English name Isaac is a translation of the Hebrew term which means "he laughs". Both of his parents laughed at the prospects of having a child in their old age. (Genesis 17:17; Genesis 18:12)
But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. (Genesis 17:19, NASB)
Isaac's name is further unique in that his is the only biblical patriarch whose name was not changed.
Note: This oil painting by Jan Provost (1465-1529), "Abraham, Sarah and the Angel", hangs at the Louvre in Paris.
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