Genesis 21:16
and went a short distance away and sat down and said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” So she sat there and wept.
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In Context
15When the water in the skin was gone, she left the child under one of the desert shrubs
Cross References
Genesis 27:38Esau said to his father, “Is that the only blessing you have, my father? Father, bless me too!” and Esau began to weep aloud.
Genesis 44:34For how can I go up to my father, if the boy is not with me, and see the pain and sorrow that would come upon my father.”
Ruth 1:9The Lord grant that each of you may find peace and happiness in the house of a new husband.” Then she kissed them; but they began to weep aloud
Esther 8:6For how can I bear to look upon the evil that will come to my people? How can I bear to see their destruction?”
Zechariah 12:10And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of pity and compassion. They will look on him whom they have pierced and they will lament for him as one laments for an only son. They will bitterly grieve for him as one grieves for the firstborn.
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 →