Genesis 21:18

Aryse and lyfte vp the lad and take hym in thy hande for I will make off him a greate people.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

In Context

17And God herde the voyce of the childe. And the angell of God called Hagar out of heaven and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the Hagar? Feare not for God hath herde the voyce of the childe where he lyeth.

19And God opened hir eyes and she sawe a well of water. And she went and fylled the bottell with water and gaue the boye drynke.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:10And the angell of ye LORde sayde vnto her: I will so encrease thy seed that it shall not be numbred for multitude.

Genesis 21:13Moreouer of the sonne of the Bondwoman will I make a nation because he is thy seed.

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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