GENESIS CHAPTER 16 Sarai is barren, GENESIS 16:1. She gives Hagar, her servant, to Abram to be his wife, GENESIS 16:2,3. Hagar conceives and despises her mistress, GENESIS 16:4. Sarai complains of it, GENESIS 16:5. Abram leaves her to Sarai's disposal, who deals hardly with her: Hagar runs from her,... [ Continue Reading ]
She reckons the children of her bond-woman (as Hagar was, GALATIANS 4:22) would be accounted her children. See GENESIS 30:3 EXODUS 21:4 2 SAMUEL 21:8 ESTHER 2:7. ABRAM HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF SARAI; supposing that God would accomplish his promise of a seed to come out of his loins by this way; and... [ Continue Reading ]
_ 1911_ i.e. His concubine, or secondary wife. Polygamy, though it was forbidden by God's first institution, GENESIS 2:24, compared with MATTHEW 19:5, and brought into the world by wicked Lamech, yet it was sometimes practised by the patriarchs, either by God's permission, who could rightly dispense... [ Continue Reading ]
For barrenness in itself was a reproach, and especially to Sarai, who seemed to be a person rejected by God, as one whom he would not honour with being the mother of that Seed; and Hagar being suddenly made Sarai's partner in the privilege of Abram's bed, and superior to her in respect of that great... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. The injury done to me by Hagar, who thus wickedly requites my kindness to her, be upon thee. i.e. is to be imputed to thee; thou art the cause of it, because thou dost not maintain my reputation, and repress her arrogancy. THE LORD give forth a righteous sentence between us, and deal with each... [ Continue Reading ]
THY MAID IS IN THINE HAND, i.e. subject to thy power and authority, as the phrase is taken, GENESIS 24:10, GENESIS 39:4,6,8 NUM 31:49. For though she be my concubine, yet she is thy inferior; and therefore if she exalt herself above her measure, I give thee power to exercise thy authority over her.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Son of God, who oft appeared in man's shape, before he took man's nature, is called an _Angel_ or _Messenger, _ because he was the _Angel of the covenant,_ ZECHARIAH 3:1, and was sent upon divers messages to men in the Old Testament, and at last was to be sent in the flesh as God's great Ambassa... [ Continue Reading ]
By this title he admonisheth her, that though she was Abram's wife, yet she was Sarai's maid, to whom she owed subjection and service, from which she could not lawfully withdraw herself. Consider with thyself what thou art doing: what a sad exchange thou art making. Thou forsakest not only an excell... [ Continue Reading ]
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Hath heard thy cry in thy affliction.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WILL BE A WILD MAN; Heb. _A wild-ass man, _ i.e. a man like a wild ass, fierce and untamed, and unsettled in his habitation; or as that creature is, JOB 39:5,8 JER 2:24 HOSEA 8:9, living in deserts and mountains, warlike and violent, exercising himself continually in hunting beasts, and oppressin... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU GOD SEEST ME; thou hast been pleased to take notice and care of me, and graciously to manifest thyself unto me. _After him that seeth me, _ i.e. after that God whose eye is upon me for good. So she chides herself for her neglect of God, and of his providence, and that not only in her master's h... [ Continue Reading ]
This name may have respect, either, 1. To God, _The well of him that liveth_ (i.e. of the true and living God) _and seeth me, _ i.e. taketh care of me. Or, 2. To Hagar, _The well of her that liveth, _ i.e. who though she gave up herself for dead and lost, yet now is likely to live, both in her per... [ Continue Reading ]
HAGAR BARE ABRAM A SON, to wit, after her return and submission to her mistress, which is evident from the following history.... [ Continue Reading ]
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