Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
God was with the lad, etc.—Paran (that is, Arabia), where his posterity has ever dwelt (compare Genesis 16:12; also Isaiah 48:19; I Peter 1:25).
his mother took him a wife—On a father's death, the mother looks out for a wife for her son, however young; and as Ishmael was now virtually deprived of his father, his mother set about forming a marriage connection for him, it would seem, among her relatives.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 21:21:
Genesis 21:14
Galatians 4:25
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