Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Genesis 16

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Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

A. M. 2092. B.C. 1912. bare

15:2,3 21:10,12 25:21 Judges 13:2 Luke 1:7,36

Egyptian

12:16 21:9,21

name

Galatians 4:24

Agar

Verse 2

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

the Lord

17:16 18:10 20:18 25:21 30:2,3,9,22 Psalms 127:3

obtain children

Heb be builded.

30:3,6 Exodus 21:4 Ruth 4:11

hearkened

3:1-6,12,17

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

A. M. 2093. B.C. 1911. had

12:4,5

gave

5 30:4,9

his

25:6 28:9 32:22 35:22 Judges 19:1-4 2 Samuel 5:13 1 Kings 11:3 Galatians 4:25

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

her mistress

1 Samuel 1:6-8 2 Samuel 6:16 Proverbs 30:20,21,23 1 Corinthians 4:6 13:4,5

And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

My wrong

Luke 10:40,41

the Lord

31:53 Exodus 5:21 1 Samuel 24:12-15 2 Chronicles 24:22 Psalms 7:8 35:23 43:1

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

Abram

13:8,9 Proverbs 14:29 15:1,17,18 1 Peter 3:7

in

24:10 Job 2:6 Psalms 106:41,42 Jeremiah 38:5

as it pleaseth thee

Heb. that which is good in thine eyes. dealt hardly with her. Heb. afflicted her.

Proverbs 29:19

fled

Exodus 2:15 Proverbs 27:8 Ecclesiastes 10:4

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

found

Proverbs 15:3

the fountain

25:18 Exodus 15:22 1 Samuel 15:7

Shur

The desert of Shur being between the south of Canaan, where Hebron was situated, and Egypt, it is likely that Hagar was returning to her own country.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

Sarai's maid

1,4 Ephesians 6:5-8 1 Timothy 6:1,2

whence

3:9 4:10 Ecclesiastes 10:4 Jeremiah 2:17,18

I flee

1 Samuel 26:19

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

submit

Ecclesiastes 10:4 Ephesians 5:21 6:5,6 Titus 2:9 1 Peter 2:18-25 5:5,6

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

the angel

22:15-18 31:11-13 32:24-30 48:15,16 Exodus 3:2-6 Judges 2:1-3 6:11 Judges 6:16,21-24 13:16-22 Isaiah 63:9 Hosea 12:3-5 Zechariah 2:8,9 Malachi 3:1 John 1:18 Acts 7:30-38 1 Timothy 6:16

I will

17:20 21:13,16 25:12-18 Psalms 83:6,7

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

shalt

17:19 29:32-35 Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:21-23 Luke 1:13,31,63

Ishmael

i.e., God shall hear. because.

41:51,52 1 Samuel 1:20

hath

29:32,33 Exodus 2:23,24 3:7 Job 38:41 Psalms 22:24

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

be a

21:20 Job 11:12 39:5-8

wild

The word rendered "wild" also denotes the "wild ass;" the description of which animal in Job 39:5-8, affords the very best representation of the wandering, lawless, freebooting life of the Bedouin and other Arabs, the descendants of Ishmael.

his hand

27:40

he shall

25:18

And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

called

7,9,10 22:14 28:17 32:30 Judges 6:24

Thou

32:30 Exodus 33:18-23 34:5-7 Psalms 139:1-12 Proverbs 5:21 15:3

him that

31:42

Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Beer-lahri-roi

That is, The well of him that liveth and seeth me.

21:31 24:62 25:11

Kadesh

Numbers 13:26

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

A. M. 2094. B.C. 1910. Hagar

11 25:12 1 Chronicles 1:28 Galatians 4:22,23

Ishmael

17:18,20,25,26 21:9-21 25:9,12 28:9 37:27

And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.