Post by 1NJwof…4SDs

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

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

Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, {even} with Isaac.

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he {is}.

And she went, and sat her down over against {him} a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against {him}, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. {Beersheba: that is, The well of the oath}

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, {so that} all that hear will laugh with me.

And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he {is} thy seed.

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

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What {mean} these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?