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    Genesis 16

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    Hagar flees from harsh treatment, meets the angel of the LORD by a spring, and is told to return to the very mistress she fled—after which she gives the LORD a name because she has seen the One who sees her.

    A household arrangement goes sourvv. 1–6

    Sarai, childless and with an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar, proposes that Abram go to Hagar so that she may build a family through her. Abram listens, and after ten years in Canaan Sarai gives Hagar to him as a wife. Hagar conceives, despises her mistress, and the domestic arithmetic becomes thoroughly unmanageable: Sarai blames Abram, Abram hands Hagar back to Sarai’s authority, and Sarai treats Hagar so harshly that she flees.

    The spring by the road to Shurvv. 7–16

    The angel of the LORD finds Hagar by a spring in the desert, along the road to Shur, and asks where she has come from and where she is going. Hagar answers plainly. The instruction is stranger than the escape: return to Sarai and submit to her authority. Yet the same messenger promises countless offspring and a son named Ishmael, because the LORD has heard Hagar’s cry of affliction. Hagar names the LORD “the God who sees me,” the well receives the name Beer-lahai-roi, and later she bears Abram a son, whom he names Ishmael.

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    1. Gen 16:1Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

    2. Gen 16:2So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

    3. Gen 16:3So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

    4. Gen 16:4And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

    5. Gen 16:5Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

    6. Gen 16:6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

    7. Gen 16:7Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

    8. Gen 16:8“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

    9. Gen 16:9So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

    10. Gen 16:10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

    11. Gen 16:11The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.

    12. Gen 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

    13. Gen 16:13So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

    14. Gen 16:14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.

    15. Gen 16:15And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

    16. Gen 16:16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

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    • 13Psalms 139:1–12For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
    • 13Genesis 32:30So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
    • 13Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
    • 13Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
    • 11Exodus 2:23–24After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
    • 11Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
    • 13Genesis 16:7Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
    • 13Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
    • 11Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
    • 1Galatians 4:24These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
    • 11Genesis 41:51–52Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
    • 111 Samuel 1:20So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”
    • 11Genesis 17:19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
    • 13Genesis 22:14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
    • 10Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
    • 11Luke 1:63Zechariah asked for a tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they were all amazed.

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