Genesis 21:12-14

21:12

<08085> [hearken.]

Isaac <03327> [in Isaac.]

21:13

21:14

Early <07925> [A.M. 2112. B.C. 1892. rose up.]

took <03947> [took.]

child <03206> [child.]

Or, youth, (see ver. 12, 20,) as Ishmael was now 16 or 17 years of age.

sent <07971> [sent.]

wandering aimlessly <08582> [wandered.]

Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba.]

So called when Moses wrote; but not before Abraham's covenant with Abimelech, ver. 31. Such instances of the figure prolepsis are not infrequent in the Pentateuch.