Gen 21:14, 29:9, Exo 2:16, Rut 2:2, 17, Pro 31:27 | 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

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

‏ Genesis 29:9

Rachel.

24:15; Ex 2:15,16,21; So 1:7,8

for she kept them.In those primitive times, a pastoral life was not only considered useful but honourable: nor was it beneath the dignity of the daughters of the most opulent chiefs to carry water from the well, or tend the sheep. Jacob, Moses, and David were shepherds.

‏ Exodus 2:16

the priest. or, prince.

3:1; Ge 14:18; 41:45; *marg:

they came.

Ge 24:11,14-20; 29:6-10; 1Sa 9:11

‏ Ruth 2:2

glean ears.

Le 19:9,16; 23:22; De 24:19-21

‏ Ruth 2:17

she gleaned.

Pr 31:27

ephah.

Ex 16:36; Eze 45:11,12

‏ Proverbs 31:27

14:1; 1Th 4:11; 2Th 3:6; 1Ti 5:10; Tit 2:4