Genesis 21:18

Arise, take up the youth and strengthen thine hand in him, because for a great people have I appointed him.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

In Context

17And the voice of the youth was heard before the Lord; and the Angel of the Lord called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What to thee, Hagar? Fear not, for the voice of the youth is heard before the Lord in the place where he is.

19And the Lord opened her eyes, and she saw the well of waters, and went and filled the skin with water, and gave the youth to drink.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:10And the Angel of the Lord said to her: Multiplying I will multiply thy sons, and they shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 21:13And also the son of the handmaid will I set for a people, because he is thy son.

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 →

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