God Protects Hagar And Ishmael. God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from where he is [resting].
Get up, help the boy up, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [empty] skin with water and gave the boy a drink. Gen 21:17-19
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
II. GOD AND THE CHOSEN FAMILY, Genesis 12-50
1. The History of Abraham and His Son Isaac, Genesis 11:27-25:11
34. Why was it necessary that Hagar and Ishmael should be sent away?
GOD PROTECTS HAGAR AND ISHMAEL
The child [Isaac] grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Now [as time went on] Sarah saw [Ishmael] the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking [Isaac]. [Gal_4:29]
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.” [Gal_4:28-31]
situation distressed Abraham greatly because of his son [Ishmael].
God said to Abraham, “Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her and do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac. [Rom_9:7]
And I will also make a nation of [Ishmael] the son of the maid, because he is your descendant.”
So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
When the water in the skin was all gone, Hagar abandoned the boy under one of the bushes.
Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And as she sat down opposite him, she raised her voice and wept.
God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from where he is [resting].
Get up, help the boy up, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [empty] skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
God was with Ishmael, and he grew and developed; and he lived in the wilderness and became an [expert] archer.
He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Genesis 21:8-21
HAGAR AND ISHMAEL CAST OUT
Poor Hagar! She thought that she had given Abraham his heir, but now she found herself and her boy outcasts on the desert waste. The water was soon spent, she little dreamed that a fountain was so near. Cry to God, He will open fountains in the middle of your deserts. Beneath their sad lot a divine purpose was running. God said, “Let it not be grievous in thy sight.” This is the teaching of Scripture: that our lives are being ordered and our steps prepared. All we need to be anxious about is the finding of the path. Let us ask God to open our eyes to see the fountains beside us, and the way before us. And after all, was not the wilderness a better training-ground for the lad than the comparative luxury of Abraham’s tent? “He became an archer.” Isaac would have been the better for a touch of the desert-life. The Holy Spirit, through Paul, gives the inner significance of this incident in Gal_5:1. See also Joh_8:36.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Genesis 21:8-21
II. THE PATRIARCHS OF ISRAEL (Chaps. 12-50)
A. Abraham (12:1–25:18)8. Isaac,
8. Son of the Promise (Chap. 21)
21:11-13 Abraham was grieved to lose Hagar and Ishmael, but God consoled him with the promise that Ishmael would become the father of a great nation. And yet the Lord made it clear that Isaac was the promised son through whom the covenant would be carried out.
21:14-21 When Hagar and the boy almost perished from thirst in the desert south of Canaan, God caused them to find a well, and they were spared. Ishmael was in his teens at this time; therefore, verse 15 probably means that Hagar pushed him under one of the shrubs in his weakness. Ishmael’s name, “God hears,” is found twice in verse 17—”God heard” and “God has heard.” Children and young people should be encouraged to pray. God hears and answers!
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