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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 21:14 - 21:14
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Gen 21:14-21. Expulsion of Ishmael.
Abraham rose up early, etc. - early, that the wanderers might reach an asylum before noon. Bread includes all sorts of victuals - bottle, a leathern vessel, formed of the entire skin of a lamb or kid sewed up, with the legs for handles, usually carried over the shoulder. Ishmael was a lad of seventeen years, and it is quite customary for Arab chiefs to send out their sons at such an age to do for themselves: often with nothing but a few days’ provisions in a bag.
wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba - in the southern border of Palestine, but out of the common direction, a wide extending desert, where they lost their way.