Genesis 16:4
He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.
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- 1 Sam 1:6-8 : 6 Her rival used to aggravate her to the point of exasperation, just to irritate her, since the LORD had not enabled her to have children. 7 This is how it would go year after year. As often as she went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would offend her that way.) So she cried and refused to eat. 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her,“Hannah, why are you crying and why won’t you eat? Why are you so upset? 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, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him.
- Prov 30:20-21 : 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.” 21 Under three things the earth has trembled, and under four things it cannot bear up:
- Prov 30:23 : 23 under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
- 1 Cor 4:6 : 6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.
- 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
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- Gen 16:5-117 verses86%
5Then Sarai said to Abram,“You have brought this wrong on me! I gave my servant into your embrace, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the LORD judge between you and me!”
6Abram said to Sarai,“Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.
7The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.
8He said,“Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied,“I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.”
9Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.
10I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.”
11Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.
- Gen 16:1-33 verses83%
1The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
2So Sarai said to Abram,“Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.
3So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram’s wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.
- Gen 16:15-162 verses74%
15So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.
16(Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)
- Gen 21:9-102 verses74%
9But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian– the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham– mocking.
10So she said to Abraham,“Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”
- Gen 12:16-172 verses71%
16and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
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12The Sons of Ishmael This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
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36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.
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14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- Gen 21:12-165 verses70%
12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
13But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”
14Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.
15When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
16Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot, away; for she thought,“I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.
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11As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai,“Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.
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22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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19Why did you say,‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
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31The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
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30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
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24These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.
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3Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”
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17This is what she said to him:“That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,