Genesis 16:4

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He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When Hagar saw that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

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  • 1 Sam 1:6-8 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely to irritate her because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival would provoke her, and she would weep and not eat. 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her, 'Hannah, why are you crying? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?'
  • 2 Sam 6:16 : 16 As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Michal, daughter of Saul, looked out from the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.
  • Prov 30:20-21 : 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.' 21 Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
  • Prov 30:23 : 23 an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.
  • 1 Cor 4:6 : 6 Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

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  • Gen 16:5-11
    7 verses
    86%

    5Then Sarai said to Abram, "The wrong done to me is your fault. I gave my maidservant into your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, I am despised in her eyes. May the LORD judge between you and me."

    6Abram said to Sarai, "Your maidservant is in your hands; do with her whatever you think is best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar, and she fled from her presence.

    7The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

    8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."

    9Then the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority."

    10The angel of the LORD also said, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they cannot be counted because of their great numbers."

    11The angel of the LORD said to her, "You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard of your misery."

  • Gen 16:1-3
    3 verses
    83%

    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

    2So Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the LORD has prevented me from having children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." And Abram listened to Sarai's voice.

    3After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, and gave her to Abram as a wife.

  • Gen 16:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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

  • Gen 21:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9But Sarah saw the son whom Hagar, the Egyptian, had borne to Abraham laughing mockingly.

    10And she said to Abraham, 'Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.'

  • Gen 12:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

    17But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

  • Gen 25:12
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    12This is the account of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 24:36
    71%

    36Sarah, my master’s wife, bore him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

  • Gen 12:14
    70%

    14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

  • Gen 21:12-16
    5 verses
    70%

    12But God said to Abraham, 'Do not be distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.'

    13'I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation because he is your offspring.'

    14Early in the morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulder, along with the boy, and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    15When the water in the skin was gone, she placed the boy under one of the bushes.

    16Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said to herself, 'I cannot watch the boy die.' And as she sat there, she began to weep loudly.

  • Gen 12:11
    70%

    11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

  • Gal 4:22
    70%

    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

  • Gen 12:19
    69%

    19"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go."

  • Gen 29:31
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    31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

  • Gen 11:30
    68%

    30Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

  • Gal 4:24
    68%

    24Now these things may be interpreted allegorically: These women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery—this is Hagar.

  • Gen 15:3
    68%

    3And Abram said, "You have given me no children, so a servant in my household will be my heir."

  • Gen 39:17
    68%

    17Then she told him this story: "That Hebrew servant you brought to us came to mock me.