Genesis 21:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 39:21 : 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
  • Gen 28:15 : 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
  • Gen 17:20 : 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • Gen 27:3 : 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
  • Gen 49:23-24 : 23 The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him: 24 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
  • Judg 6:12 : 12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!"
  • Judg 13:24-25 : 24 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him. 25 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • Luke 1:80 : 80 The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
  • Luke 2:40 : 40 The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
  • Gen 10:9 : 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

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

  • Gen 21:14-19
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    14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

    16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

    17God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

    18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

    19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

  • 27The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

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    35It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.

    36He said to his boy, "Run, find now the arrows which I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

    37When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, "Isn't the arrow beyond you?"

  • Gen 49:23-24
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    23The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

    24But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

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    20I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.

    21Behold, I will send the boy, saying, 'Go, find the arrows!' If I tell the boy, 'Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;' then come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as Yahweh lives.

    22But if I say this to the boy, 'Behold, the arrows are beyond you;' then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.

  • 18When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.

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

  • 3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

  • 5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

  • 2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • 12He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."

  • 10He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

  • 22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

  • 7The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

  • 13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.