It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
and at this time also it was usual to give the child a name, which was not by divine appointment, but was a custom that prevailed among them which took its rise from Abraham, having his name changed at the time when circumcision was enjoined him, Genesis 17:5 and from the naming and circumcision of Isaac, mentioned together,