Genesis 21:18

Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

In Context

17And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

19Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:10And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

Genesis 21:13And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

1 Chronicles 1:29These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:15-22

God's Mercy to Hagar and Ishmael. ( b. c. 1892.) 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And… Read the whole commentary →

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