Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13And also I will make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is thy seed.
15And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Cross References
Genesis 16:7And the agent of LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 21:31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them.
Genesis 22:3And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 24:54And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and tarried all night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.
Genesis 26:31And they rose up promptly in the morning, and swore one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 28:18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:10-14
Hagar and Ishmael Expelled. ( b. c. 1892.) 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →