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Life Abraham and Hagar. According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian slave of Sarai, Abram's wife (whose names later became Sarah and Abraham). Sarai had been barren for a long time and sought a way to fulfill God's promise that Abram would be father of many nations, especially since they had grown old, so she offered Hagar to Abram to be his concubine.
An angel of the Lord meets her in the wilderness and tells her to return and submit to Sarah. God assures her that she, too, will be the mother of a great nation. In response, Hagar becomes the only character in the Bible to name God: El Roi, “the God who sees me” (Genesis 16:13). Fast forward to our story in Genesis 21, and Hagar is sent ...
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- God Hears and Sees Us. We all are born into this world with a relational need to have our caregiver hear and see us; to be in tune with us, our needs, and what we are experiencing.
- God Provides. The first time that Hagar encounters the angel of the Lord in the desert, she is by a spring of water. But the second time she is in the desert, to her knowledge, there is no water to be found.
- God Is Faithful to the Outcast. Hagar had so many things going against her. She was a slave, a foreigner, and hated by a woman in power. Her son was in fact the patriarch’s first son, but, even by God’s account, was not the son chosen to carry on God’s covenant.
- God Still Works, Even When We Go off Plan. Finally, we can see through Hagar’s story that God is powerful and will still find ways to love us and glorify himself, even when we don’t stick to his original plan.
Mar 27, 2024 · Agar. Hagar, in the Old Testament (Gen. 16:1–16; 21:8–21), Abraham’s concubine and the mother of his son Ishmael. Purchased in Egypt, she served as a maid to Abraham’s childless wife, Sarah, who gave her to Abraham to conceive an heir. When Hagar became pregnant, her meek manner changed to arrogance; with Abraham’s reluctant ...
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Hagar and Ishmael - Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 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. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave ...
Once Pregnant, She Taunted Sarah. When she saw how quickly she became pregnant, Hagar reasoned that she must be more righteous than her mistress and made it her business to be vocal about it. 5. Sarah acted harshly toward Hagar to the point that Hagar fled into the wilderness. 6.
Jun 23, 2021 · Hagar is Sarah’s Egyptian slave woman, whom Sarah gives to Abraham as secondary wife and who would bear a child for him. After Hagar becomes pregnant, Sarah treats her harshly. Eventually Hagar flees from her mistress into the wilderness, where God’s messenger speaks to her. Hagar has long represented the plight of the foreigner, the slave, and the sexually abused woman.
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