Kejadian 21:15

21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved ¹  the child under one of the shrubs.

Kejadian 21:21

21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. ²  His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt. ³ 

Kejadian 21:25

21:25 But Abraham lodged a complaint ⁴  against Abimelech concerning a well ⁵  that Abimelech’s servants had seized. ⁶ 

Kejadian 22:14

22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” ⁷  It is said to this day, ⁸  “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.” ⁹ 

[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.

[21:21]  ² sn The wilderness of Paran is an area in the east central region of the Sinai peninsula, northeast from the traditional site of Mt. Sinai and with the Arabah and the Gulf of Aqaba as its eastern border.

[21:21]  ³ tn Heb “And his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.”

[21:25]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb used here means “to argue; to dispute”; it can focus on the beginning of the dispute (as here), the dispute itself, or the resolution of a dispute (Isa 1:18). Apparently the complaint was lodged before the actual oath was taken.

[21:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “concerning the matter of the well of water.”

[21:25]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew verb used here means “to steal; to rob; to take violently.” The statement reflects Abraham’s perspective.

[22:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord sees” (יְהוָה יִרְאֶה, yÿhvah yir’eh, traditionally transliterated “Jehovah Jireh”; see the note on the word “provide” in v. 8). By so naming the place Abraham preserved in the memory of God’s people the amazing event that took place there.

[22:14]  ⁸ sn On the expression to this day see B. Childs, “A Study of the Formula ‘Until this Day’,” JBL 82 (1963): 279-92.

[22:14]  ⁹ sn The saying connected with these events has some ambiguity, which was probably intended. The Niphal verb could be translated (1) “in the mountain of the Lord it will be seen/provided” or (2) “in the mountain the Lord will appear.” If the temple later stood here (see the note on “Moriah” in Gen 22:2), the latter interpretation might find support, for the people went to the temple to appear before the Lord, who “appeared” to them by providing for them his power and blessings. See S. R. Driver, Genesis, 219.