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Genesis 16:13

GENESIS—NOTE ON Genesis 16:13 here I have seen him who looks after me. Although this could imply that Hagar actually saw God, it could also mean she understands that God sees or “looks after” her. He is the God of seeing.

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See also Genesis 16:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 16:13. _AND SHE CALLED THE NAME OF THE LORD_] She invoked (ותקרא _vattikra_) _the name of Jehovah who spake unto her_, thus: Thou _God seest me_! She found that the eye of a merciful Go...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Birth of Ishmael 1. הנר _hāgār_, Hagar, “flight.” Hejrah, the flight of Muhammed. 7. מלאך _mal'ak_ “messenger, angel.” A deputy commissioned to discharge a certain duty for the principal whom...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 16 ABRAHAM AND HAGAR _ 1. Sarai's suggestion (Genesis 16:1)_ 2. Abram's action (Genesis 16:4) 3. Sarai and Hagar (Genesis 16:5) 4. Hagar in the wilderness ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Sarah has no children, so she hits on a plan of which we have other examples (Genesis 30:3; Genesis 30:9). She hands over Hagar to Abraham, that the maid may compensate for the deficiency of her mistr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _'el_. See App-4. SAID. Translate: "Do. see, here, even after the Vision? "i.e. "Do. live, after seeing God? " LOOKED. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), implying living as well...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Hagar and the Angel at the Well 7. _the angel of the Lord_ The Angel, i.e. messenger, of Jehovah is the personification of Jehovah. Observe that in Genesis 16:10 He identifies Himself with Jehovah, ex...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord that spake unto her_ These words definitely identify the Angel with a manifestation of the Almighty; see Genesis 16:7. _Thou art a God that seeth_ LXX Σὺ ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἐφιδών με, Lat. _Tu Deus qu...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 26 THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD Genesis 16:13. _She called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me._ AFFLICTIONS sanctified are amongst our greatest mercies. Hagar would have...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SHE CALLED THE NAME OF THE LORD,—THOU GOD SEEST ME— or perhaps, _"she called upon,_ she _invoked_ the name of the Lord who spoke to her: and one said, _Thou_ [art] _the God, seeing me, i.e._. rega...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TWENTY-NINE THE STORY OF ABRAHAM: THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN (Genesis 16:1-16) 1. _The Biblical Account._ 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, who...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SHE CALLED THE NAME OF THE LORD THAT SPAKE UNTO HER, THOU GOD SEEST ME: FOR SHE SAID, HAVE I ALSO HERE LOOKED AFTER HIM THAT SEETH ME?_ Called the name - common in ancient times to name places f...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    16:13 himself, (b-18) Lit. 'of the being seen,' or 'of the vision.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH THE BIRTH OF ISHMAEL 1, 2. Abraham was now eighty-five years old, Sarah was seventy-five, and the promise of an heir seemed no nearer fulfilment. Despairing of offspr...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HAVE I ALSO HERE, etc.] Hagar realises that she still lives though God has looked upon her....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 16 SARAI AND HER MAID HAGAR V1 Sarai, who was Abram’s wife, had no children. She had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar. V2 Sarai said to Abr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU GOD SEEST ME. — Heb., _Thou art El Boi,_ that is, a God of seeing. Not as Onkelos paraphrases it, “Thou art a God that sees all things,” but “Thou art a God that permits Himself to be seen.” For...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּקְרָ֤א שֵׁם ־יְהוָה֙ הַ דֹּבֵ֣ר אֵלֶ֔יה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BIRTH OF ISHMAEL Genesis 16:1 IN this unpretending chapter we have laid bare to us the origin of one of the most striking facts in the history of religion: namely, that from the one person of Abram h...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ABRAM'S SON ISHMAEL Genesis 16:1 Poor Hagar! What contrasts met in her life! Bought in an Egyptian slave-mart, but destined to be the mother of a great people! She is not the last to suffer from the...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The previous story makes it evident that the principle of faith is the true philosophy of life. It builds on God and is satisfied with Him. It thus becomes the source of all righteousness. Faith, ther...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    PLANNING FOR GOD Like so many after her, Sarai ran out of patience. She thought of a plan to achieve the end God had in mind. In the land of the Chaldees, a woman who could not bear children could gi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, (g) Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? (g) She rebukes her own dullness and acknowledges God's...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Thou the God. She had imagined before that she was talking to some man; but perceiving, at parting, that it was some superior being, she invoked him thus. --- The hinder parts, as Moses did afterwards...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? It is but just to set up tokens of praise, where God hath set...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘THOU GOD SEEST ME’_ ‘She called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me.’ Genesis 16:13 These verses are connected with one of those primitive revelations by which in the earl...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._And she called the name of the Lord_. Moses, I have no doubt, implies that Hagar, after she was admonished by the angel, changed her mind: and being thus subdued, retook herself to prayer; unless,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Abram seeking, at Sarah's instigation, to anticipate the will of God and the accomplishment of the promise in its time, we have the covenant of the law in Hagar, the source of distress and disquietude...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SHE CALLED THE NAME OF THE LORD THAT SPAKE UNTO HER,.... Either she called on the name of the Lord, and prayed unto him, that he would forgive her sin and give her some fresh tokens of his love; a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Ver. 13. _Thou God seest me._] This shows she had been well...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her_ That is, thus she made confession of his name, _Thou God seest me_ This should be, with her, his name for ever, and this his memorial, by whic...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Sarai, being barren, giueth Hagar to Abram. 4 Hagar being afflicted for despising her mistresse, runneth away. 7 An Angel sendeth her backe to submit her selfe, 11 and telleth her of her child....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou, God, seest me; for she said, Have I also here looked after Him that seeth me?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Return of Hagar and the Birth of Ishmael...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FIFTH SECTION _Abram’s Concession to Sarai’s Impatience. Abram and Hagar. Hagar’s Flight. The Angel of the Lord. Hagar’s Return, and Ishmael’s Birth_ GENESIS 16:1-16 1Now Sarai, Abram’s wife [in the...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HUMAN EFFORT TO ACCOMPLISH GOD'S PROMISE Though Abram was a man of faith, Sarai his wife had not borne children, and she weakened his faith by making a mere fleshly suggestion that he should use Sarai...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-16 Hagar was out of her place, and out of the way of her duty, and going further astray, when the Angel found her. It is a great mercy to be stopped in a sinful way, either by conscience or by prov...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 s...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Here we find unbelief casting its dark shadow across the spirit of Abraham, and again turning him aside, for a season, from the path of simple, happy confidence in God. "And Sarai said unto Abram, Beh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 16:13 called H7121 (H8799) name H8034 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8802) You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees H410 H7210 sa

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And she called the name of Yahweh Who spoke to her, “You are El Roi (‘the God Who sees')”, for she said, “Have I even here looked after Him Who sees me?” ' She gives God a new name as being her perso...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 16:13 When Hagar fled into the wilderness from the face of her mistress she was visited by an angel, who sent her back; but together with this implied reproof of her impatience, he gave her a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Birth of Ishmael. CHARACTERS: Sarah, Abram, Hagar, Angel, Ishmael. CONCLUSION: The moment the believer takes his eyes away from God's promises he is ready for mean devices of unbelief whic...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 16:1. God had promised Abraham a son, but had not said that he should be born of Sarah. Hence his wife having no hope in herself, almost compelled him to receive Hagar to his bed, not consider...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou God seest me_ THE RETROSPECT OF A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE Hagar had heard the voice of the Lord, and had distinct evidence of His providential care and regard. I. THAT IT IS A REVELATION OF GOD. “S...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 16:13. The name of the Lord.] _Heb. The name of Jehovah. Thou, God, seest me. Heb. Thou art the God of vision,_ or rather “of visibility”—who dost cause Thyself to be seen—dos...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 16:7 AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. _Maleach Jehovah_, elsewhere styled _Maleach Elohim _(Genesis 21:17; Genesis 31:11); supposed but wrongly to be

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    called. Genesis 16:7 Genesis 16:9 Genesis 16:10 Genesis 22:14 Genesis 17

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her — That is, thus she made confession of his name, Thou God seest me — This should be with her, his name for ever, and this his memorial, by which...

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