Genesis 21:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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  • Gen 39:21 : 21 But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him kindness. He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.
  • Gen 28:15 : 15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 The LORD was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master. 3 His master observed that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made everything he was doing successful.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”
  • Gen 17:20 : 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
  • Gen 27:3 : 3 Therefore, take your weapons– your quiver and your bow– and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.
  • Gen 49:23-24 : 23 The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him. 24 But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Powerful One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
  • Judg 6:12 : 12 The LORD’s angel appeared and said to him,“The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”
  • Judg 13:24-25 : 24 Manoah’s wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the LORD empowered him. 25 The LORD’s Spirit began to control him in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • Luke 1:80 : 80 And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.
  • Luke 2:40 : 40 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.
  • Gen 10:9 : 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD.(That is why it is said,“Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.

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  • 21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 21:14-19
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    14Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

    15When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

    16Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot, away; for she thought,“I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

    17But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her,“What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.

    18Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

    19Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

  • 27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

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    35The next morning Jonathan, along with a young servant, went out to the field to meet David.

    36He said to his servant,“Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan shot the arrow beyond him.

    37When the servant came to the place where Jonathan had shot the arrow, Jonathan called out to the servant,“Isn’t the arrow further beyond you?”

  • Gen 49:23-24
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    23The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.

    24But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Powerful One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

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    20I will shoot three arrows near it, as though I were shooting at a target.

    21When I send a boy after them, I will say,“Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy,‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the LORD lives, you will be safe and there will be no problem.

    22But if I say to the boy,“Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ get away. For in that case the LORD has sent you away.

  • 18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

  • 8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

  • 3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

  • 5(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

  • 2So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

  • 12He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

  • 10The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

  • 22When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said,“I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

  • 7The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.

  • 13The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.