Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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Interpretation
Hagar was out of her place, and out of the way of her duty, and going further astray, when the Angel found her. It is a great mercy to be stopped in a sinful way, either by conscience or by providence.
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This thought runs through Genesis 16:10-14.
Glossary
- Beer-lahai-roi Place
- Biblical well. Modern identification: Ain Muweileh.
- Bered Place
- Biblical mountain. Modern identification: Haluza.
- Kadesh-barnea Place
- Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin”. Modern identification: Ain el Qudeirat.