Gen 21 | TSK | STEP | Isaac is born, and circumcised. Sarah's joy. Isaac is weaned. Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth. Hagar in distress. The angel relieves and comforts her. Abimelech's covenant with Abraham at Beer-sheba. visited. Sarah as.

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

heard.

16:11; Ex 3:7; 22:23,27; 2Ki 13:4,23; Ps 50:15; 65:2; 91:15; Mt 15:32

the angel.

16:9,11

What.

Jud 18:23; 1Sa 11:5; Isa 22:1

fear.

15:1; 46:3; Ex 14:13; Ps 107:4-6; Isa 41:10,13,14; 43:1,2; Mr 5:36

I will.

13; 16:10; 17:20; 25:12-18; 1Ch 1:29-31

Nu 22:31; 2Ki 6:17-20; Isa 35:5,6; Lu 24:16-31

God.

17:20; 28:15; 39:2,3,21; Jud 6:12; 13:24,25; Lu 1:80; 2:40

an archer.

10:9; 16:12; 25:27; 27:3; 49:23,24

in the.

Nu 10:12; 12:16; 13:3,26; 1Sa 25:1

a wife.

24:3,4; 26:34,35; 27:46; 28:1,2; Jud 14:2; 1Co 7:38

A.M. 2118. B.C. 1886. Abimelech.

20:2; 26:26

God.

20:17; 26:28; 28:15; 30:27; 39:2,3; Jos 3:7; 2Ch 1:1; Isa 8:10; 45:14

Zec 8:23; Mt 1:23; Ro 8:31; 1Co 14:25; Heb 13:5; Re 3:9

swear.

14:22,23; 24:3; 26:28; 31:44,53; De 6:13; Jos 2:12; 1Sa 20:13,17,42

1Sa 24:21,22; 30:15; Jer 4:2; 2Co 1:23; Heb 6:16

that thou wilt not deal falsely with me. Heb. if thou shaltlie unto me. I have.

20:14

14:13; Ro 12:18; Heb 6:16

reproved.

26:15-22; 29:8; Ex 2:15-17; Jud 1:15; Pr 17:10; 25:9; 27:5; Mt 18:15

because.Wells of water were of great consequence in those hot countries, especially where the flocks were numerous; because water was scarce, and digging to find it was attended with the expense of much time and labour.

servants.

13:7; 26:15-22; Ex 2:16,17

I wot."Wot," though used for the present, is the past tense of the almost obsolete word "to wit," from the Saxon {witan,} to know.

13:7; 2Ki 5:20-24

took.

14:22,23; Pr 17:8; 18:16,24; 21:14; Isa 32:8

made.

26:28-31; 31:44; 1Sa 18:3; Eze 17:13; Ro 1:31; Ga 3:15

33:8; Ex 12:26; 1Sa 15:14

a witness.

31:44-48,52; Jos 22:27,28; 24:27

called.

26:33

Beer-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 18:3

the 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 3:7

called.

4:26; 12:8; 26:23,25,33

on 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; 16:26

1Ti 1:17

20:1; 1Ch 29:15; Ps 39:12; Heb 11:9,13; 1Pe 2:11