rose up: Gen 19:27, Gen 22:3, Gen 24:54, Gen 26:31; Psa 119:60; Pro 27:14; Ecc 9:10
took: Gen 25:6, Gen 36:6-7
child: Or, youth (See note on Gen 21:12, and See note on Gen 21:20), as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age.
sent: Joh 8:35
wandered: Gen 16:7, Gen 37:15; Psa 107:4; Isa 16:8; Gal 4:23-25
Beersheba: So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, Gen 21:31. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch Gen 21:33, Gen 22:19, Gen 26:33, Gen 46:1; 1Ki 19:3