18. Help the boy up. Take him by the hand. I will make his descendants into a great nation.”
19. Then God showed Hagar a well of water. So she went to the well and filled her bag with water. Then she gave the boy a drink.
20. God was with the boy as he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert. He learned to shoot with a bow very well.
21. He lived in the Desert of Paran. His mother found a wife for him in Egypt.
22. Then Abimelech came with Phicol, the commander of Abimelech’s army. They said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
23. So make a promise to me here before God. Promise that you will be fair with me and my children and my descendants. Be kind to me and to this land where you have lived as a stranger. Be as kind to me as I have been to you.”
24. And Abraham said, “I promise.”