Genesis 21:19

Then God showed her a water-hole. So she got up and filled her water bag, and she gave Ishmael a drink.

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In The King James Version

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

In Context

18Go and take care of him. Listen, I will give him a big family, and they will become a great nation.”

20God kept Ishmael safe as he grew up in the desert called Paran. He learned how to use a bow and arrows properly, so he became a good hunter. And later on, Hagar got a wife for him from Egypt country.

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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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