Genesis 21
NASB2020
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

ModeText only

New American Standard Bible 2020

Genesis 21:12-21

12But God said to Abraham, “1Do not be distressed because of the boy and your slave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for 2through Isaac 3your descendants shall be named. 13And of 4the son of the slave woman I will make a nation also, because he is your 5descendant.” 14So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a 6skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15When the water in the skin was used up, she 7left the boy under one of the bushes. 16Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “May I not 8see the boy die!” And she sat opposite him, and 9raised her voice and wept. 17God 10heard the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “11What is the matter with you, Hagar? 12Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him by 13the hand, 14for I will make a great nation of him.” 19Then God 15opened her eyes, and she saw 16a well of water; and she went and filled the 17skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

20And 18God was with the boy, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 2119He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Read all of Genesis 21

Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 21:12 Lit Do not let it be grievous in your sight ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 21:12 Rom 9:7; Heb 11:18 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 21:12 Lit your seed will be called ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 21:13 Gen 16:10; 21:18; 25:12-18 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 21:13 Lit seed ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 21:14 I.e., a skin used as a bottle ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 21:15 Lit cast ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 21:16 Lit look at the death of the child ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 21:16 Jer 6:26; Amos 8:10 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 21:17 Ex 3:7; Deut 26:7; Ps 6:8 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 21:17 Lit What to you; an idiom ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 21:17 Gen 26:24 ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 21:18 Lit your ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 21:18 Gen 16:10; 21:13; 25:12-16 ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 21:19 Num 22:31; 2 Kin 6:17 ↩
  16. 16. Genesis 21:19 Gen 16:7, 14 ↩
  17. 17. Genesis 21:19 See note v 14 ↩
  18. 18. Genesis 21:20 Gen 28:15; 39:2, 3, 21 ↩
  19. 19. Genesis 21:21 Gen 25:18 ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 21

New American Standard Bible 2020 — © 1960–2020 The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.