Genesis 21:20
And God was with the child, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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, and his mother took him a wife out of Paran of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis 25:27And the lads grew, and Esau was a man skilled in hunting, dwelling in the country, and Jacob a simple man, dwelling in a house.
Genesis 28:15And behold I am with thee to preserve thee continually in all the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will bring thee back to this land; for I will not desert thee, until I have done all that I have said to thee.
Genesis 39:3And his master knew that the Lord was with him, and the Lord prospers in his hands whatsoever he happens to do.
Genesis 49:23Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached him, 1 And the archers pressed hard upon him. 1
Judges 13:24And the woman brought forth a son, and she called his name Samson; and the child grew, 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 →