17. When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, “Hagar, why are you worried? Don't be afraid. I have heard your son crying.
18. Help him up and hold his hand, because I will make him the father of a great nation.”
19. Then God let her see a well. So she went to the well and filled the skin with water, then gave some to her son.
20-21. God blessed Ishmael, and as the boy grew older, he became an expert with his bow and arrows. He lived in the Paran Desert, and his mother chose an Egyptian woman for him to marry.
22. About this time Abimelech and his army commander Phicol said to Abraham, “God blesses everything you do!
23. Now I want you to promise in the name of God that you will always be loyal to me and my descendants, just as I have always been loyal to you in this land where you have lived as a foreigner.”