Genesis 21:15

When the water in the waterskin was gone, she abandoned the child under one of the bushes.

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In The King James Version

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

In Context

14Abraham rose up early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. He gave her the boy and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

16Then she went, and sat down a short distance from him, about the distance of a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not look upon the death of the child.” As she sat there across from him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:22Then Moses led Israel onward from the Sea of Reeds. They went out into the wilderness of Shur. They traveled for three days into the wilderness and found no water.

2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. They wandered around for seven days, and then there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

Isaiah 44:12The smith works with his tools, forming it, working over the coals. 1 He shapes it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. 1 He is hungry, and his strength wanes; he drinks no water and becomes faint. 1

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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