1 Isaac is born, and circumcised.
6 Sarah's joy.
8 Isaac is weaned.
9 Hagar and Ishmael are cast forth.
15 Hagar in distress.
17 The angel relieves and comforts her.
23 Abimelech's covenant with Abraham at Beer-sheba.

visited. 50:24 Ex 3:16 4:31 20:5 Ru 1:6 1Sa 2:21 Ps 106:4 Lu 1:68 19:44 Ro 4:17-20

Sarah as. 17:19 18:10,14 Ps 12:6 Mt 24:35 Ga 4:23,28 Tit 1:2

2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

conceived. 2Ki 4:16,17 Lu 1:24,25,36 Ac 7:8 Ga 4:22 Heb 11:11

at the set. 17:19,21 18:10,14 Ro 9:9

3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

6,12 17:19 22:2 Jos 24:3 Mt 1:2 Ac 7:8 Ro 9:7 Heb 11:18

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

17:10-12 Ex 12:48 Le 12:3 De 12:32 Lu 1:6,59 2:21 Joh 7:22,23 Ac 7:8

5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

17:1,17 Ro 4:19

6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

God. 17:17 18:12-15 1Sa 1:26-28 2:1-10 Ps 113:9 126:2 Isa 49:15,21 Isa 54:1 Lu 1:46-55 Joh 16:21,22 Ga 4:27,28 Heb 11:11

to laugh. Sarah most likely remembered the circumstance mentioned in ch. 18:12; and also the name Isaac, which implies laughter.

will laugh. Lu 1:14,58 Ro 12:15

7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

Who. Nu 23:23 De 4:32-34 Ps 86:8,10 Isa 49:21 66:8 Eph 3:10 2Th 1:10

for I. 18:11,12

8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

A.M. 2111. B.C. 1893. and was. 1Sa 1:22 Ps 131:2 Ho 1:8

feast. 19:3 26:30 29:22 40:20 Jud 14:10,12 1Sa 25:36 2Sa 3:20 1Ki 3:15 Es 1:3

9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

Sarah. 16:3-6,15 17:20

Egyptian. 16:1,15

mocking. 2Ki 2:23,24 2Ch 30:10 36:16 Ne 4:1-5 Job 30:1 Ps 22:6 42:10 Ps 44:13,14 Pr 20:11 La 1:7 Ga 4:22,29 Heb 11:36

10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

Cast out. The word rendered 'cast out,' signifies also to divorce. See Le. 21:7. In this latter sense, it may be understood here.

25:6,19 17:19,21 20:11 22:10 36:6,7 Mt 8:11,12 22:13 Joh 8:35 Ga 4:22-31 1Jo 2:19

heir. Joh 8:35 Ga 3:18 4:7 1Pe 1:4 1Jo 2:19

11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

because. 17:18 22:1,2 2Sa 18:33 Mt 10:37 Heb 12:11

12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

hearken. 1Sa 8:7,9 Isa 46:10

in Isaac. 17:19,21 Ro 9:7,8 Heb 11:18

13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

18 16:10 17:20 25:12-18

14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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

15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

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.

16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

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

17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

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. See on ch. 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

18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

I will. 13 16:10 17:20 25:12-18 1Ch 1:29-31

19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

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

20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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

22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

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

23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

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 shalt lie unto me. I have. ch. 20:14

24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

14:13 Ro 12:18 Heb 6:16

25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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

26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

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

27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

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

28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

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

30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

a witness. 31:44-48,52 Jos 22:27,28 24:27

31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

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

32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

27 14:13 31:53 1Sa 18:3

the Philistines. 10:14 26:8,14 Ex 13:17 Jud 13:1

33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

grove. or, tree. Am 8:14

The 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

34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

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