Genesis 21:15-25

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[a] began to sob.
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

The Treaty at Beersheba

22 At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”
24 Abraham said, “I swear it.”
25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Jeremiah 6:26; Amos 8:10; Zechariah 12:10
  • 2. Exodus 3:7; Numbers 20:16; Deuteronomy 26:7; Psalms 6:8
  • 3. S Genesis 16:7
  • 4. Genesis 22:11,15
  • 5. S Genesis 15:1
  • 6. ver 13; S Genesis 17:20
  • 7. Numbers 22:31
  • 8. S Genesis 16:7
  • 9. Genesis 26:3,24; Genesis 28:15; Genesis 39:2,21,23; Luke 1:66
  • 10. S Genesis 14:6
  • 11. Genesis 24:4,38; Genesis 28:2; Genesis 34:4,8; Judges 14:2
  • 12. S Genesis 20:2
  • 13. ver 32; Genesis 26:26
  • 14. ver 23; Genesis 26:28; Genesis 28:15; Genesis 31:3,5,42; Genesis 39:2,3; 1 Samuel 3:19; 1 Samuel 16:18; 2 Chronicles 1:1; Psalms 46:7; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 8:8,10; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 43:5
  • 15. ver 31; Genesis 25:33; Genesis 26:31; Genesis 31:53; Joshua 2:12; 1 Kings 2:8
  • 16. 1 Samuel 24:21
  • 17. S ver 22; Joshua 2:12
  • 18. Ge 26:15,18,20-22

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew; Septuagint "the child"
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