The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 21:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And the Lord—Jehovah; not because the verse is Jehovistic (Knobel, Bleek, et alii), but because the promise naturally falls to be implemented by him who gave it (vide Genesis 18:10)—visited—remembered with love (Onkelos), ἐπισκέψατο (LXX.

; cf. Genesis 1:24; Exodus 4:31; 1 Samuel 2:21; Isaiah 23:17); though it sometimes means to approach in judgment (vide Exodus 20:5; Exodus 32:34). Alleged to be peculiar to the Jehovist (the term used by the Elohist being זָכַר: Genesis 8:1; Genesis 19:29; Genesis 30:20), the word occurs in Genesis 1:24, which Tuch and Bleek ascribe to the Elohist—Sarah as he had said (Genesis 17:21; Genesis 18:10, Genesis 18:14),—God's word of promise being ever the rule of his performance (cf.

Exodus 12:25; Luke 1:72)—and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken—i.e. implemented his promise; the proof of which is next given (cf. Numbers 23:19; Hebrews 6:18).

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