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objections, but silently does as he is bidden, as one trained up to an implicit obedience. In sending them
away without any attendants, on foot, and slenderly provided for, it is probable that he observed the directions given him. If Hagar and Ishmael had conducted themselves well in Abraham's family, they might have continued there; but they threw themselves out by their own pride and insolence, which were thus justly chastised. Note, By abusing
our privileges we forfeit them. Those that know not when they are well off, in such a desirable place as Abraham's family, deserve to be cashiered, and to be made to know the worth of mercies by the want of them.
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
They were reduced to great distress there. Their provisions were spent, and Ishmael was sick. He that used to be full fed in Abraham's house, where he waxed fat and kicked, now fainted and sunk, when he was brought to short allowance. Hagar is in tears, and sufficiently mortified. Now she wishes for the crumbs she had wasted and made light of at
her master's table. Like one under the power of the spirit of bondage, she despairs of relief, counts upon nothing but the death of the child (Ge 21:15,16), though God had told her, before he was born, that he should live to be a man, a great man. We are apt to forget former promises, when present