SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:15
Y faltó el agua del odre, y echó al muchacho debajo de un árbol;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 21:15
Verse 15. And she cast the child] dlyh ta űltw vattashlech eth haiyeled, and she sent the lad under one of the shrubs, viz., to screen him from the intensity of the heat. Here Ishmael appears to be utterly helpless, and this circumstance seems farther to confirm the opinion that he was now in a state of infancy; but the preceding observations do this supposition entirely away, and his present helplessness will be easily accounted for on this ground: 1. Young persons can bear much less fatigue than those who are arrived at mature age. 2. They require much more fluid from the greater quantum of heat in their bodies, strongly marked by the impetuosity of the blood; because from them a much larger quantity of the fluids is thrown off by sweat and insensible perspiration, than from grown up or aged persons. 3. Their digestion is much more rapid, and hence they cannot bear hunger and thirst as well as the others. On these grounds Ishmael must be much more exhausted with fatigue than his mother.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-21 - If Hagar and Ishmael had behaved well in Abraham's family, they migh have continued there; but they were justly punished. By abusin privileges, we forfeit them. Those who know not when they are well off will be made to know the worth of mercies by the want of them. The were brought to distress in the wilderness. It is not said that the provisions were spent, or that Abraham sent them away without money But the water was spent; and having lost their way, in that hot climat Ishmael was soon overcome with fatigue and thirst. God's readiness to help us when we are in trouble, must not slacken, but quicken ou endeavours to help ourselves. The promise concerning her son is repeated, as a reason why Hagar should bestir herself to help him. I should engage our care and pains about children and young people, to consider that we know not what great use God has designed them for, an may make of them. The angel directs her to a present supply. Many wh have reason to be comforted, go mourning from day to day, because the do not see the reason they have for comfort. There is a well of wate near them in the covenant of grace, but they are not aware of it, til the same God that opened their eyes to see their wound, opens them to see their remedy. Paran was a wild place, fit for a wild man; such a Ishmael. Those who are born after the flesh, take up with the wilderness of this world, while the children of the promise aim at the heavenly Canaan, and cannot be at rest till they are there. Yet God wa with the lad; his outward welfare was owing to this.
Original Hebrew
ויכלו 3615 המים 4325 מן 4480 החמת 2573 ותשׁלך 7993 את 853 הילד 3206 תחת 8478 אחד 259 השׂיחם׃ 7880
