Genesis 21:16
Then 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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- Gen 27:38 : 38 Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.
- Gen 29:11 : 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.
- Gen 44:34 : 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”
- Judg 2:4 : 4 When the LORD’s angel finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
- Ruth 1:9 : 9 May the LORD enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.
- 1 Sam 24:16 : 16 When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said,“Is that your voice, my son David?” Then Saul wept loudly.
- 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.
- 1 Kgs 3:26 : 26 The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”
- Esth 8:6 : 6 For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”
- Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
- Zech 12:10 : 10 “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.
- Luke 15:20 : 20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.
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- Gen 21:17-193 verses82%
17 But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her,“What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.
18 Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
- Gen 21:14-152 verses82%
14 Early 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.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
- Gen 16:6-83 verses74%
6 Abram 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.
7 The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.
8 He 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.”
- Gen 21:9-124 verses72%
9 But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian– the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham– mocking.
10 So 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!”
11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.
12 But 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.
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11 Then 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 16:13-153 verses72%
13 So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“Here I have seen one who sees me!”
14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.(It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
15 So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael.
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10 As for her, she was very distressed. She prayed to the LORD and was, in fact, weeping.
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22 He replied,“While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,‘Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.
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18 Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”
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4 He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.
- Gen 16:1-22 verses68%
1 The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
2 So 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.
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20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
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6 opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
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7 She went on to say,“Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”
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20 Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”