Genesis 21:22
Around this time Abimelech came with Phicol, the commander of his army, to see Abraham. “God blesses you in everything you do,” Abimelech said.
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21He lived in the Desert of Paran. His mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves, so that they could have children again.
Genesis 26:28“Now we realize that the Lord is with you,” they replied. “So we agreed that we should make a sworn agreement with you.
Genesis 30:27“Please be so kind as to stay,” Laban replied, “because I have discovered that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
Genesis 39:3His master noticed that the Lord was with him and made him successful in everything he did.
1 Samuel 24:22So David promised this to Saul with an oath. Then Saul went back home, but David and his men returned to the stronghold.
Isaiah 8:10You can plan your strategy, but it will be foiled; you can say what you're intending, but it won't happen, for God is with us.”
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 →