Genesis 21:20

and (God) was with him, and he increased, and dwelled in wilderness (or and lived in the wilderness), and he was made a young man (who was) an archer,

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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

19And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went, and filled the bottle, and she gave drink to the child (or and she gave her boy a drink);

21and dwelled in the desert of Paran; and his mother took to him a wife of the land of Egypt. (and he lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother found him a wife from the land of Egypt.)

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Cross References

Genesis 16:12this shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against all men, and the hands of all men shall be against him; and he shall set (his) tabernacles even against all his brethren (or and he shall be at odds with all of his kinsmen).

Genesis 25:27And when they were waxen, Esau was a man knowing of hunting, and a man (who was) an earth-tiller; forsooth Jacob was a simple man, and dwelled in tabernacles. (And when they were fully grown, Esau was a man knowledgeable about hunting, and who worked the soil, or was a farmer; and Jacob was a simple man, who stayed at home in the tents.)

Genesis 28:15And I shall be thy keeper, whither ever thou shalt go; and I shall lead thee again into this land, and I shall not leave thee, no but I shall fulfill all [the] things which I have said, (or and I shall not leave thee, until I have fulfilled all the things which I have promised).

Genesis 39:3which knew full well that the Lord was with Joseph, and that all things which he did, were (ad)dressed of the Lord in his hand. (who knew full well that the Lord was with Joseph, and that all the things which he did were directed by the hand of the Lord.)

Genesis 49:23but his brethren wrathed (at) him, and chided him, and they had darts, and had envy to him, (or and they had arrows, and they envied him).

Judges 13:24And so she childed a son, and called his name Samson; and the child increased (in age), 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 →

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