Genesis 16:1
HANDMAID. Not necessarily. slave. Compare 1 Samuel 25:4). HAGAR. Hebrew. _Flight._ See Genesis 16:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
HANDMAID. Not necessarily. slave. Compare 1 Samuel 25:4). HAGAR. Hebrew. _Flight._ See Genesis 16:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEN. These 10 years to be taken into account in any calculations. WIFE. This was strictly in accordance with the enactment of Khammurahi (146) which Abram had brought from Ur. See App-15.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEE. Should be "her". See App-31.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEALT HARDLY. Hebrew afflicted her. The Code of Khammurabi (119) forbade her being sold. Sarah could only lay tasks on her. See App-15.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGEL OF THE LORD. First occurance.. messenger. 2nd Person, as being _sent_. _Elohim_. as being commissioned _by oath._ THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SHUR. wall. The nearest way to her native land. Shur was the name of the great fortified wall shutting Egypt off from Palestine, with its _Mig... [ Continue Reading ]
FACE. presence. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ See App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST. True to-day and for over 3,000 years. Compare Genesis 21:20; Isaiah 21:13.Jeremiah 3:2.Ezra 8:31.Psalms 10:8; Psalms 10:9. PRESENCE. face, i.e. on the face of the same country. BRETHREN. Esp. with the Midianites (Genesis 37:28), Midian being his half-brother, by Keturah (compare Judges 8 [ Continue Reading ]
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 as looking Compare Genesis 32:30; Judges 13:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEER-LAHAI-ROI. _the well of living after seeing._... [ Continue Reading ]
HAGAR BARE. Through infirmity of Sarah's faith. So the Law (parenthetically) "because of transgression" (Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:19). Levitical Law given, as Ishmael was, until Christ the antitype of Isaac should be born (Galatians 1:1; Galatians 1:19, Gal 1:31).... [ Continue Reading ]