Genesis 21:18
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
King James Version with Apocrypha
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
Cross References
Genesis 16:10And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 21:13And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
1 Chronicles 1:29These are their generations: The firstborn 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 →