Genesis 21:14
A.M. 2112. B.C. 1892. rose up.19:27; 22:3; 24:54; 26:31; Ps 119:60; Pr 27:14; Ec 9:10took.25:6; 36:6,7child.Or, youth, (see ver. 12, 20,) as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age. sent.Joh 8:35wandered.16:7; 37:15; Ps 107:4; Isa 16:8; Ga 4:23-25Beer-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 Genesis 21:31-33
called.26:33Beer-sheba.i.e., The well of the oath, or the well of the seven: alluding to the seven ewe lambs. The verb rendered "to swear" is derived from the word translated seven. 14; 26:23; Jos 15:28; Jud 20:1; 2Sa 17:11; 1Ki 4:25 27; 14:13; 31:53; 1Sa 18:3the Philistines.10:14; 26:8,14; Ex 13:17; Jud 13:1 grove. or, tree.Am 8:14The original word {eshel,} has been variously translated a grove, a plantation, an orchard, a cultivated field, and an oak; but it may denote a kind of tamarisk, as it is rendered by Gesenius, the same with the Arabic {athl.} Beer-sheba.De 16:21; Jud 3:7called.4:26; 12:8; 26:23,25,33on the name.Dr. Shuckford justly contends, that the expression rendered, "he called on the name," signifies "he invoked in the name." everlasting.De 33:27; Ps 90:2; Isa 40:28; 57:15; Jer 10:10; Ro 1:20; 16:261Ti 1:17 Genesis 26:33
Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore.21:31Beer-sheba. i.e., the well of the oath.28This may have been the same city which was called Beer-sheba a hundred years before this, in the time of Abraham; but as the well, from which it had its name originally, was closed up by the Philistines, the name of the place might have been abolished with the well; when, therefore, Isaac re-opened it, he restored the ancient name of the place. Joshua 19:2
Beer-sheba, Sheba, and Moladah.15:28; Ge 21:31; 1Ch 4:28-30Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, Bethuel.Ne 11:26-30
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