Genesis 21:19

Then 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.

Translation for Translators

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

18Help your son up, and hold his hand as you leave, because I will cause his descendants to become a great nation.”

20God helped the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became a good ◄archer/man who hunts with bow and arrows►.

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:17Then he prayed, “Yahweh, I request that you open my servant’s eyes in order that he can see what is out there!” So Yahweh enabled the servant to look out and see that surrounding the hill on which the town was built was a huge number of horses, and chariots made of fire!

Luke 24:16But they were prevented { something prevented them} from recognizing [MTY] him.

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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