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Genesis 21:1-22 (NET)

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¹ The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised. ² So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. ³ Abraham named his son whom Sarah bore to him Isaac. ⁴ When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ⁵ (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) ⁶ Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me." ⁷ She went on to say, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!" ⁸ The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹ But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham mocking. ¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!" ¹¹ Sarah's demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. ¹² But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted. ¹³ But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too." ¹⁴ Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba. ¹⁵ When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs. ¹⁶ Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, "I refuse to watch the child die." So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably. ¹⁷ But God heard the boy's voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Don't be afraid, for God has heard the boy's voice right where he is crying. ¹⁸ Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation." ¹⁹ Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink. ²⁰ God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer. ²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt. ²² At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 1) Promises - Sarah - LORD gave her a child as he had promised
(v. 17) Comfort / Rest - God - heard the Hagar son's cry

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 1) Genesis 21 - The Birth of Isaac (2012-08-02)
(v. 2) Genesis 24 - Search for the Bride of Isaac (part I) (2014-05-30)
(v. 22) Genesis 21 - The Birth of Isaac (2012-08-02)

This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 2) Teachers Worship: Genesis 24 (part I) (2014-06-01)

Definition(s):
Abimelech (Ab-immel-ekh): father of the king
Abraham (Ab-ra-ham): father of a great multitude
Abraham (Ehb-ra-ham): father of a great multitude
Beer (Ba-eehr): a well
Hagar (Heh-gar): a stranger; one that fears
Isaac (Eye-zakk): laughter
Ishmael (Ish-mehl): God that hears
Ishmael (Ish-ma-el): God that hears
Sarah (Seh-ra): lady; princess; princess of the multitude
So (Soh):