Genesis 21:20
And God was with him. And he grew, and he stayed in the wilderness, and he became a young man, an archer.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He will be a wild man. His hand will be against all, and all hands will be against him. And he will pitch his tents away from the region of all his brothers.”
Genesis 25:27And as adults, Esau became a knowledgeable hunter and a man of agriculture, but Jacob, a simple man, dwelt in tents.
Genesis 28:15And I will be your guardian wherever you will journey, and I will bring you back into this land. Neither will I dismiss you, until I have accomplished all that I have said.”
Genesis 39:3who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and that all the things that were done by him were directed by his hand.
Genesis 49:23But those who held darts, provoked him, and they contend with him, and they envied him.
Judges 13:24And so she bore a son, and she called his name Samson. And the boy grew up, and the Lord blessed 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 →