Genesis 21:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

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  • Gen 16:11 : 11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
  • Exod 14:13 : 13 But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.
  • Exod 22:23 : 23 If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
  • Exod 22:27 : 27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.
  • Judg 18:23 : 23 Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?
  • 1 Sam 11:5 : 5 Now Saul came from the field, driving the oxen before him; and he said, Why are the people weeping? And they gave him word of what the men of Jabesh had said.
  • 2 Kgs 13:4 : 4 Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.
  • 2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
  • Ps 107:4-6 : 4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. 5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink. 6 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;
  • Isa 22:1 : 1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
  • Isa 41:10 : 10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
  • Isa 41:13-14 : 13 For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper. 14 Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 43:1-2 : 1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. 2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
  • Matt 15:32 : 32 And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.
  • Mark 5:36 : 36 But Jesus, giving no attention to their words, said to the ruler of the Synagogue, Have no fear, only have faith.
  • Gen 46:3 : 3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
  • Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
  • Gen 16:9 : 9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

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    18 Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

    19 Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

    20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

  • Gen 21:9-16
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    9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

    10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

    11 And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

    12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

    13 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

    14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

    15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

    16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

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    7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

    8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

    9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

    10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

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    11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

    12 And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

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    18 And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

    19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

    20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

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    13 And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

    14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

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    15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

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    7 Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?

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    7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

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