Genesis 21:20
God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
In Context
21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man. 1 He will be hostile against every man, 1 and every man will be hostile to him, 1 and he will live apart from all his brothers.”
Genesis 25:27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a quiet man, who spent his time in the tents.
Genesis 28:15Behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. I will bring you into this land again; for I will not leave you. I will do all that I have promised to you.”
Genesis 39:3His master saw that Yahweh was with him and that Yahweh prospered everything that he did.
Genesis 49:23The archers will attack him 1 and shoot at him and harass him. 1
Judges 13:24Later the woman gave birth to a son, and called his name Samson. The child grew up and Yahweh blessed 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 →