Genesis 21:20
And God was with the lad; and he grew up, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Leeser Tanakh
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 dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and in the presence of all his brethren shall he dwell.
Genesis 25:27And the boys grew up: and Esau was an expert hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 28:15And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done what I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis 39:3And when his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hand:
Genesis 49:23And they embittered his life, and they shot at him, and they hated him, the men of the arrows.
Judges 13:24And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the child 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 →