Genesis 21:21

New International Version

While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

Cross References

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.

Genesis 16:3

So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

Genesis 25:18

His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

1 Kings 11:18

They set out from Midian and went to Paran. Then taking people from Paran with them, they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 29:6

Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.

Habakkuk 3:3

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.

Numbers 10:12

Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.

Numbers 12:16

After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

Numbers 13:26

They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:3

So at the Lord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better.

Judges 14:2

When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”

1 Samuel 25:1

Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.