Genesis 21:20 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 21:20

18 Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for ^aI will make him a great nation.”

19 Then ^aGod opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.

20 So God ^awas with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, ^band became an archer.

21 He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother ^atook a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

A Covenant with Abimelech

22 And it came to pass at that time that ^aAbimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, ^b“God is with you in all that you do.

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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.

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