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The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
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An Act of Despair, Not Cruelty
Commentators unanimously describe Hagar's action not as one of cruelty, but of utter despair. Believing her son was dying from thirst and exhaustion, she could no longer carry him. The term 'cast' should be understood as laying him down in anguish under a shrub to shield him from the sun in his final moments, as she could not bear to watch him die.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
מלל mı̂lēl “speak,” an ancient and therefore solemn and poetical word.
חמת chêmet “bottle,…
19th Century
Anglican
She cast the child under one of the shrubs. —The act was one of despair. Ishmael, though seventeen years of age, had not …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the water was spent in the bottle It was all drank up by them, being thirsty, having wandered about some time in…
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