Text -- Genesis 21:15 (NET)

21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 21:15

¹ tn Heb “threw,” but the child, who was now thirteen years old, would not have been carried, let alone thrown under a bush. The exaggerated language suggests Ishmael is limp from dehydration and is being abandoned to die. See G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 2:85.