Geneses Chapter 21- Promised Son

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Geneses Chapter 21- Promised Son

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The Birth of Isaac

1 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. (It's all the grace of God.)

2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. (Sarah was rejuvenated, revitalized, pregnant, and gave birth to a son as promised by God.)

3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. (Abraham named him Isaac- laughter- as directed by God. 17:19. The empty laughter became truly joyful laughter.)

4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. (Isaac was circumcised at 8 years old; inheriting the covenant.)

5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. (It's been 25 years since his arrival at Canaan.)

6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”

7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” (Sarah praised the Lord for having a child in her late age.)

Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

8 The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. (Isaac grew up.)

9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” (Sarah, seeing Ishmael playing with Isaac, demanded Abraham to kick Hagar and Ishmael out due to jealousy.)

11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. (Abraham was distressed since Ishmael is also his son.)

12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. (God allowed Abraham to send Ishmael out because the separation was necessary for divine genealogy. 17:15-21, Gal. 4:23, 28-29)

13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.” (But God also took care of Ishmael. All actions bring its consequences. Abraham took Hagar and had Ishmael, now he must send them away.)

14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. (Hagar and Ishmael were sent off to the wilderness with a very limited supplies.)

15 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.

16 Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob. (Hagar, running out the supplies, was hopeless other than expecting the death of her son.)

17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.” (The heavenly voice told Hagar that God will make Ishmael into a great nation. Actually he became the ancestor of the Arab people. Think of the conflicts between Israelites and Arabians in the history.)

19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. (Finding a well, they survived.)

20 God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. (In God's sovereignty Ishmael grew up to an archer.)

21 While he was living in the Desert of Paran(1, Map), his mother got a wife for him from Egypt. (Hagar, an Egyptian, had a Egyptian wife for Ishmael. People survive by people.)

The Treaty at Beersheba

22 At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.” (The neighboring rulers acknowledged Abraham to be blessed by God, and asked to be allied together.)

24 Abraham said, “I swear it.” (Abraham accepted their offer.)

25 Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.

26 But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”

27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.

28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, 29 and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”

30 He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.” (Abraham and Abimelek agreed the Abraham's ownership of a well as a sign of alliance.)

31 So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there. (Beersheba: "Well of the Oath" or "Well of the Seven") (1, Map)

32 After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. (The Philistine rulers retreated to their land.)

33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. (Abraham planted a tree as a sign of settling down.)

34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time. (It seemed like that Abraham finally settled down as like a native.)

(1, Map: Desert of Paran & Beersheba)

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