Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 21:20

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 21:20 - 21:20

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 21:20 - 21:20

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21:1 - 21:1
21:3 - 21:3
21:8 - 21:8
21:9 - 21:9
21:10 - 21:10
21:12 - 21:12
21:13 - 21:13
21:14 - 21:14
21:15 - 21:15
21:19 - 21:19
21:20 - 21:20
21:22 - 21:22
21:25 - 21:25
21:33 - 21:33
21:34 - 21:34

God was with the lad, etc. - Paran (that is, Arabia), where his posterity has ever dwelt (compare Gen 16:12; also Isa 48:19; 1Pe 1:25).

his mother took him a wife - On a father’s death, the mother looks out for a wife for her son, however young; and as Ishmael was now virtually deprived of his father, his mother set about forming a marriage connection for him, it would seem, among her relatives.