Genesis 21:14
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
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13And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
15And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.
Cross References
Genesis 16:7And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
Genesis 21:31So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
Genesis 22:3And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
Genesis 24:54Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.
Genesis 26:31And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.
Genesis 28:18And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on 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 →