Gen 21:14-16, Num 14:33, Deu 8:15, 32:10, Job 12:24, Psa 107:40, Eze 34:6, 12 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 2112. B.C. 1892. rose up. took. child.Or, youth, (see ver. 12, 20,) as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age. sent. wandered. Beer-sheba.So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, ver. 31. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch.

Genesis 21:14-16

A.M. 2112. B.C. 1892. rose up.

19:27; 22:3; 24:54; 26:31; Ps 119:60; Pr 27:14; Ec 9:10

took.

25:6; 36:6,7

child.Or, youth, (see ver. 12, 20,) as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age.

sent.

Joh 8:35

wandered.

16:7; 37:15; Ps 107:4; Isa 16:8; Ga 4:23-25

Beer-sheba.So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, ver. 31. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch.

33; 22:19; 26:33; 46:1; 1Ki 19:3

the water.

14; Ex 15:22-25; 17:1-3; 2Ki 3:9; Ps 63:1; Isa 44:12; Jer 14:3

and she cast the child.Or, "and she sent the lad," to screen him from the intensity of the heat.

Let.

44:34; 1Ki 3:26; Es 8:6; Isa 49:15; Zec 12:10; Lu 15:20

lift.

27:38; 29:11; Jud 2:4; Ru 1:9; 1Sa 24:16; 30:4

Numbers 14:33

shall wander in the wilderness. or, feed.This implies, that they should move from place to place in the deserts, as the Bedounin Arabs, who have no certain dwelling, but rove about seeking pasture for their flocks.

32:13; Jos 14:10; Ps 107:4,40

forty years.

33:38; De 1:3; 2:14

bear.

5:31; Jer 3:1,2; Eze 23:35,45-49; Ho 9:1

Deuteronomy 8:15

led thee.

1:19; Ps 136:16; Isa 63:12-14; Jer 2:6

fiery serpents.

Nu 21:6; Ho 13:5

who brought.

Ex 17:5; Nu 20:11; Ps 78:15,16; 105:41; 114:8; Isa 35:7; 1Co 10:4

Deuteronomy 32:10

found.

8:15,16; Ne 9:19-21; Ps 107:4,5; So 8:5; Jer 2:6; Ho 13:5

led him. or, compassed him. he instructed.

4:36; Ne 9:20; Ps 32:7-10; 147:19,20; Ro 2:18; 3:2

he kept.

Ps 17:8; Pr 7:2; Zec 2:8

Job 12:24

He taketh.

20; 17:4; Isa 6:9,10; 19:1; Da 4:16,33; Ho 7:11

and causeth.

Ps 107:4,40

in a wilderness{Bethohoo,} "in chaos," i.e., in a state of utter confusion; it is the same word which is employed in Ge 1:2, to describe the chaotic state of the earth at the creation.