An Egyptian handmaid of Sarah who bore Abraham’s first son, Ishmael. When Sarah remained childless, she gave Hagar to Abraham as a surrogate, following ancient custom. After Ishmael’s birth, tension erupted between the women, and Hagar was eventually sent away into the desert with her son. God met Hagar in her distress, promising to make Ishmael into a great nation and earning her the distinction of being the first person in the Bible to give God a name—‘the God who sees me.’
So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”Genesis 16:13 · Berean Standard Bible
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife. And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that…
Sarai grows impatient with God's timing and takes matters into her own hands. The consequences ripple across centuries — but God sees the woman everyone else overlooks.
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son, and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!” Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through…
The promised son arrives — and Sarah laughs again, this time with joy. But the arrival of one son means the departure of another.
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