Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy Ishmael. While he grew up God was still close to him. He went to a place called Paran that was also a desert. He was good at hunting birds and animals.
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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
21After some time his mother found an Egyptian girl to be his wife, and he married her.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12The angel also said to her, “Your son will be like a man from the bush. He will cause trouble for everyone and everyone will cause trouble for him. He will live by himself, away from all his family.”
Genesis 25:27The two boys grew up. Esau was good at hunting and he loved being out in the bush. But Jacob was a quiet man who liked to stay at home.
Genesis 28:15I will stay near you and keep you safe wherever you are. Then afterwards I will bring you back again to this place. I will not leave you; I will do everything I have promised you.”
Genesis 39:3Potiphar saw that Yahweh was with Joseph and always helped him to work well.
Genesis 49:23Your enemies hated you, and kept coming to fight you with spears.
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 →