Genesis 16:13

And she calls the Name of YHWH who is speaking to her, “You [are], O God, my beholder”; for she said, “Even here have I looked behind my beholder?”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

In Context

12and he is a wild-donkey man, his hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him—and before the face of all his brothers he dwells.”

14Therefore has one called the well, “The well of the Living One, my beholder”; behold, between Kadesh and Bered.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:9And the Messenger of YHWH says to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands”;

Genesis 28:17and he fears and says, “How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.”

Genesis 32:30And Jacob calls the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered”;

Exodus 33:18And he says, “Please show me Your glory”;

Judges 6:24And Gideon builds an altar to YHWH there, and calls it YHWH-Shalom, it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrites to this day.

Proverbs 5:21For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, || And He is pondering all his paths.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:11-15

The Promise Concerning Ishmael. ( b. c. 1911.) 10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And she called… Read the whole commentary →

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