Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
In Context
21And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
Genesis 25:27And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Genesis 28:15And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
Genesis 39:3And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
Genesis 49:23He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:
Judges 13:24So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.
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 →