Genesis 21:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 39:21 : 21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend.
  • Gen 28:15 : 15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
  • Gen 17:20 : 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.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • Gen 27:3 : 3 So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;
  • Gen 49:23-24 : 23 He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: 24 But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:
  • Judg 6:12 : 12 And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.
  • Judg 13:24-25 : 24 So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him. 25 And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • Luke 1:80 : 80 And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.
  • Luke 2:40 : 40 And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.
  • Gen 10:9 : 9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

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  • 21 And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 21:14-19
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    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.

    17 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.

    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.

  • 27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

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    35 Now in the morning, Jonathan went out into the fields at the time he had said to David, and he had a little boy with him.

    36 And he said to the boy, Go and get the arrow I let loose from my bow. And while the boy was running, he sent an arrow past him.

    37 And when the boy came to the place where the arrow was, Jonathan, crying out after the boy, said, Has it not gone past you?

  • Gen 49:23-24
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    23 He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:

    24 But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:

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    20 And on the third day I will send arrows from my bow against its side as if at a mark.

    21 And I will send my boy to have a look for the arrow. And if I say to him, See, the arrow is on this side of you; take it up! then you may come; for there is peace for you and no evil, by the living Lord.

    22 But if I say to the boy, See, the arrow has gone past you: then go on your way, for the Lord has sent you away.

  • 18 Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

  • 8 And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

  • 3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

  • 5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

  • 2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

  • 12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

  • 10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

  • 22 And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

  • 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.

  • 13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;