Genesis 21:14
Then Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, and he put the boy upon her shoulder and sent her away. So she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
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13But I will also make the son of the slave-girl into a nation, because he is your son.”
15When the water in the skin was gone, she left the child under one of the desert shrubs
Cross References
Genesis 16:7The messenger of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring in the way to Shur.
Genesis 21:31The place was called Beer-sheba, because it was there they swore their oath.
Genesis 22:3So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, and his son Isaac. When he had split the wood for the burnt-offering, he set out for the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 24:54He and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they rose in the morning, the servant said, “Send me away to my master.”
Genesis 26:31Then in the morning they arose early and took oaths with each other; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 28:18So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:10-14
Hagar and Ishmael Expelled. ( b. c. 1892.) 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →