In that time God thought about His promise to Sarah ... and she became pregnant. The child was born when Abraham was a 100 years old ... and Abraham called him Isaac.
When Isaac was 8 days old Abraham circumcised him as The Lord had ordered him to do ... and he held a big party for Isaac on the same day.
But Sarah felt very much ashamed that she had a child at her age ... and when she saw the slave's son Ismael [Abraham's son with the slave Hagar] snickering, she had enough.
She went to Abraham and ordered him to get rid of Hagar and her child. She wanted Hagar out of their lives forever.
Abraham took the problem up with The Lord and The Lord told him to do what Sarah demanded of him. The Lord told Abraham not to worry about Hagar and her child, because The Lord would take care of them and He promised Abraham that He will built the child into a big nation.
So, early the next morning, Abraham put some food and water in a bundle on Hagar's back and send her and her son off into the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Hagar walked and walked, not particularly knowing where she can go, when the water and the food started to dry up.
She found a thorn tree and put her child down under it. She then walked away to stand far away from her child. She couldn't bear to watch him die of hunger and thirst ... and then she bursted into tears.
But God had heard the child crying and then the Angel of God called to her: 'What is wrong, Hagar?', and Hagar told him the whole story. He then replied: 'Don't be afraid.
The Lord had heard the cries of the child. Stand up and pick the child up. Hold him close to your bossom, because God is going to make him into a big nation.'
The Angel then opened Hagar's eyes to a well with water and she filled the bottle and gave her child water to drink.
Ismael grew up in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.
And God was with the boy his whole life ... and he grew up in the wilderness and became an archer.
Source: The Bible: Genesis 21
