Chapter 16:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Revelation Exodus
Genesis 16
16:1 Now
a
Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian,
whose name [was] Hagar.
(
a) It seems that she had respect for God's
promise, which could not be accomplished without issue.
16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD
hath
b restrained me from bearing: I
pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And
Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
(
b) She fails by limiting God's power to the
common order of nature, as though God could not give her children in her old
age.
16:4 And he went in unto Hagar,
and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
c
despised in her eyes.
(
c) This punishment declares what they gain if
they attempt any thing against the word of God.
16:7 And
the
d angel of the LORD found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
(
d) Which was Christ, as appears in (
Genesis
16:13,18:17).
16:9 And the angel of the LORD
said unto her,
e Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself under her hands.
(
e) God rejects no estate of people in their
misery, but sends them comfort.
16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every
man's hand against him; and
f he shall
dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
(
f) That is, the Ishmaelites will be a separate
people by themselves and not part of another people.
16:13 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 graces, who was present with her everywhere.
Chapter 16:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Revelation Exodus
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
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