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12 aHe shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
bAnd he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”  
13 Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-1the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here2 seen Him awho sees me?”  
14 Therefore the well was called aBeer Lahai Roi; observe, it is bbetween Kadesh and Bered.  
15 So aHagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.  
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 16:14

Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi - It appears, from Genesis 16:7, that Hagar had sat down by a fountain or well of water in the wilderness of Shur, at which the Angel of the Lord found her; and, to commemorate the wonderful discovery which God had made of himself, she called the name of the well beer - lachai - roi , "A well to the Living One who seeth me." Two things seem implied here:

1.A dedication of the well to Him who had appeared to her; and,

2.Faith in the promise: for he who is the Living One, existing in all generations, must have it ever in his power to accomplish promises which are to be fulfilled through the whole lapse of time.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 16:14:

Genesis 24:62
Numbers 33:24

 

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