Genesis 21:22
At that time, King Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “It is clear that God helps you with everything that you do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
21He lived in Paran Desert. While e was there, Hagar got a wife for him from Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech’s wife and his slave girls so that they could become pregnant.
Genesis 26:28One of them answered, “We have seen that Yahweh helps you. So we said to each other, ‘We should have an agreement between us and you. We should make a peace treaty with you,
Genesis 30:27But Laban said to him, “If you are pleased with me, stay here, because I have found out by performing a magic ritual that Yahweh has blessed me because of what you have done for me.
Genesis 39:3His master saw that Yahweh was helping Joseph and enabling him to be successful in everything that he did.
1 Samuel 24:22David solemnly promised Saul that he would not harm Saul’s family. Then Saul went back home, and David and his men went back up into the place where they had been hiding.
Isaiah 8:10You can prepare for what you will do to attack Judah, but what you plan to do will not happen! You will not succeed, because God is with us!
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 →