Genesis 21:18

Help your son up, and hold his hand as you leave, because I will cause his descendants to become a great nation.”

Translation for Translators

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

17The boy was crying too. And God heard the boy crying. So he caused one of his angels to call out from heaven to Hagar, saying, “Hagar, are you worried about something? Do not be afraid, because God has heard the boy crying there.

19Then God showed her a well of water. So she went to the well and filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:10The angel also said to her, “I will enable you to bear so many descendants that no one will be able to count them!”

Genesis 21:13But I will also cause the son of your maidservant to be the ancestor of the people of a great nation [MTY], because he is also your son.”

1 Chronicles 1:29The son of Abraham’s slave wife Hagar was Ishmael. Ishmael’s twelve sons were Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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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