Geneses Chapter 16- Man's Plan

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Geneses Chapter 16- Man's Plan

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Hagar and Ishmael

1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said. (Sarai, being barren, made Abram to have a child with Hagar, her Egyptian slave.)

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. (It had been 10 years of God's promise to be populated, with no child, Sarai and Abram lost their patience and tried to solve problem of no child by themselves.)

4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. (After Hagar conceived, Sarai despised Hagar due to her jealousy of her.)

5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.” (Sarai plotted to chase Hagar out and complaint to Abram.)

6 “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. (Abram avoided his responsibility, and Sarai mistreated Hagar, so Hagar fled from them. What do you think of it?)

7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. (The angel of the Lord met Hagar out there.)

8 And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered. (Hagar reported what happened to her.)

9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

11 The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.

12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” (The angel told Hagar to go back, and blessed her descendants. Why? The seed of hostility was planted.)

13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” (Hagar named the "Lord who sees".)

1 4That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi (Well of the Living One who Sees Me or Well of the Vision of Life.); it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered (in the Negev desert).

15 So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. (Hagar came back and bore a boy; Ishmael, the father of Arab nations.)

16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael. (Abram was 86 years old. He lived for 175 years. 25:7-8. Sarah 127 years. 23:1)