Genesis 21:20
So God was with the childe, and he grewe and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
21And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he shalbe a wilde man: his hande shall be against euery man, and euery mans hand against him. and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis 25:27And the boyes grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, and liued in the fields: but Iaakob was a plaine man, and dwelt in tentes.
Genesis 28:15And lo, I am with thee, and wil keepe thee whithersoeuer thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this lande: for I will not forsake thee vntill I haue performed that, that I haue promised thee.
Genesis 39:3And his master sawe that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that hee did to prosper in his hande.
Genesis 49:23And the archers grieued him, and shotte against him and hated him.
Judges 13:24And the wife bare a sonne, and called his name Samson: and the childe grewe, and the Lord 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 →