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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Genesis 21

Chapter 21

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

visited

50:24 Exodus 3:16 4:31 20:5 Ruth 1:6 1 Samuel 2:21 Psalms 106:4 Luke 1:68 19:44 Romans 4:17-20

Sarah as

17:19 18:10,14 Psalms 12:6 Matthew 24:35 Galatians 4:23,28 Titus 1:2

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

conceived

2 Kings 4:16,17 Luke 1:24,25,36 Acts 7:8 Galatians 4:22 Hebrews 11:11

at the set

17:19,21 18:10,14 Romans 9:9

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 Joshua 24:3 Matthew 1:2 Acts 7:8 Romans 9:7 Hebrews 11:18

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

17:10-12 Exodus 12:48 Leviticus 12:3 Deuteronomy 12:32 Luke 1:6,59 2:21 John 7:22,23 Acts 7:8

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

17:1,17 Romans 4:19

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

God

17:17 18:12-15 1 Samuel 1:26-28 2:1-10 Psalms 113:9 126:2 Isaiah 49:15,21 Isaiah 54:1 Luke 1:46-55 John 16:21,22 Galatians 4:27,28 Hebrews 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

Luke 1:14,58 Romans 12:15

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

Numbers 23:23 Deuteronomy 4:32-34 Psalms 86:8,10 Isaiah 49:21 66:8 Ephesians 3:10 2 Thessalonians 1:10

for I

18:11,12

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

1 Samuel 1:22 Psalms 131:2 Hosea 1:8

feast

19:3 26:30 29:22 40:20 Judges 14:10,12 1 Samuel 25:36 2 Samuel 3:20 1 Kings 3:15 Esther 1:3

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

2 Kings 2:23,24 2 Chronicles 30:10 36:16 Nehemiah 4:1-5 Job 30:1 Psalms 22:6 42:10 Psalms 44:13,14 Proverbs 20:11 Lamentations 1:7 Galatians 4:22,29 Hebrews 11:36

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 Matthew 8:11,12 22:13 John 8:35 Galatians 4:22-31 1 John 2:19

heir

John 8:35 Galatians 3:18 4:7 1 Peter 1:4 1 John 2:19

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

because

17:18 22:1,2 2 Samuel 18:33 Matthew 10:37 Hebrews 12:11

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

1 Samuel 8:7,9 Isaiah 46:10

in Isaac

17:19,21 Romans 9:7,8 Hebrews 11:18

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

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 Psalms 119:60 Proverbs 27:14 Ecclesiastes 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

John 8:35

wandered

16:7 37:15 Psalms 107:4 Isaiah 16:8 Galatians 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 1 Kings 19:3

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

the water

14 Exodus 15:22-25 17:1-3 2 Kings 3:9 Psalms 63:1 Isaiah 44:12 Jeremiah 14:3

and she cast the child

Or, "and she sent the lad," to screen him from the intensity of the heat.

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: 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 1 Kings 3:26 Esther 8:6 Isaiah 49:15 Zechariah 12:10 Luke 15:20

lift

27:38 29:11 Judges 2:4 Ruth 1:9 1 Samuel 24:16 30:4

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 Exodus 3:7 22:23,27 2 Kings 13:4,23 Psalms 50:15 65:2 91:15 Matthew 15:32

the angel

16:9,11

What

Judges 18:23 1 Samuel 11:5 Isaiah 22:1

fear

15:1 46:3 Exodus 14:13 Psalms 107:4-6 Isaiah 41:10,13,14 43:1,2 Mark 5:36

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 1 Chronicles 1:29-31

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.

Numbers 22:31 2 Kings 6:17-20 Isaiah 35:5,6 Luke 24:16-31

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 Judges 6:12 13:24,25 Luke 1:80 2:40

an archer

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

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

in the

Numbers 10:12 12:16 13:3,26 1 Samuel 25:1

a wife

24:3,4 26:34,35 27:46 28:1,2 Judges 14:2 1 Corinthians 7:38

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 Joshua 3:7 2 Chronicles 1:1 Isaiah 8:10 45:14 Zechariah 8:23 Matthew 1:23 Romans 8:31 1 Corinthians 14:25 Hebrews 13:5 Revelation 3:9

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 Deuteronomy 6:13 Joshua 2:12 1 Samuel 20:13,17,42 1 Samuel 24:21,22 30:15 Jeremiah 4:2 2 Corinthians 1:23 Hebrews 6:16

that thou wilt not deal falsely with me

Heb. if thou shalt lie unto me. I have.

20:14

And Abraham said, I will swear.

14:13 Romans 12:18 Hebrews 6:16

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

reproved

26:15-22 29:8 Exodus 2:15-17 Judges 1:15 Proverbs 17:10 25:9 27:5 Matthew 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 Exodus 2:16,17

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 2 Kings 5:20-24

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

took

14:22,23 Proverbs 17:8 18:16,24 21:14 Isaiah 32:8

made

26:28-31 31:44 1 Samuel 18:3 Ezekiel 17:13 Romans 1:31 Galatians 3:15

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

33:8 Exodus 12:26 1 Samuel 15:14

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 Joshua 22:27,28 24:27

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 Joshua 15:28 Judges 20:1 2 Samuel 17:11 1 Kings 4:25

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 1 Samuel 18:3

the Philistines

10:14 26:8,14 Exodus 13:17 Judges 13:1

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

grove

or, tree.

Amos 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

Deuteronomy 16:21 Judges 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

Deuteronomy 33:27 Psalms 90:2 Isaiah 40:28 57:15 Jeremiah 10:10 Romans 1:20 16:26 1 Timothy 1:17

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

20:1 1 Chronicles 29:15 Psalms 39:12 Hebrews 11:9,13 1 Peter 2:11