GENESIS CHAPTER 16 (1611 KING JAMES BIBLE)


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¹ Now Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaide, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

² And Sarai said vnto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee go in vnto my maid: it may bee that I may obtaine children by her: and Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

³ And Sarai Abrams wife, tooke Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten yeeres in the land of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram, to be his wife.

⁴ ¶ And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceiued: And when shee saw that shee had conceiued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes.

⁵ And Sarai said vnto Abram, My wrong be vpon thee: I haue giuen my maid into thy bosome, and when shee saw that she had conceiued, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD iudge betweene me and thee.

⁶ But Abram said vnto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; doe to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, shee fled from her face.

⁷ ¶ And the Angel of the LORD found her by a fountaine of water, in the wildernesse, by the fountaine, in the way to Shur:

⁸ And he said, Hagar Sarais maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou goe? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistresse Sarai.

⁹ And the Angel of the LORD said vnto her, Returne to thy mistresse, and submit thy selfe vnder her hands.

¹⁰ And the Angel of the LORD said vnto her, I will multiply thy seede exceedingly, that it shall not be numbred for multitude.

¹¹ And the Angel of the LORD said vnto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

¹² And he will be a wilde man; his hand will be against euery man, and euery mans hand against him: & he shal dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

¹³ And shee called the name of the LORD that spake vnto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Haue I also here looked after him that seeth me?

¹⁴ Wherefore the well was called, Beer-lahai-roi: Behold, It is betweene Cadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ ¶ And Hagar bare Abram a sonne: and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

¹⁶ And Abram was fourescore and sixe yeeres old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

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Bayo olowoyo's Genesis Chapter 16 comment on 4/24/2013, 3:40pm...

Abraham ran out of patient and accepted the alternative to the will of God which brought great adverse effect on the world today.

Vincent's Genesis Chapter 16 comment about verse 6 on 3/01/2013, 3:29am...

From this verse, God shows that our flesh is under our control, sometimes we fall in to temptations, we face difficulties physically, we fail to obey Him because we have given our flesh the whole of our attention. All that our worldly body requires, which is in war with our spiritual body is under our own control.

Oragba florence's Genesis Chapter 16 comment on 1/25/2013, 7:43am...

We should always revere God for he is God.

Davette Linville's Genesis Chapter 16 comment about verse 12 on 11/17/2012, 5:04pm...

Doesn't this qualify to say that man is wild from his beginnings, like Isaiah18:2 says?

JB's Genesis Chapter 16 comment on 2/08/2012, 5:24pm...

Keep reading about Ishmael...God goes on to say that he will lead a great nation.
Unfortunately, the same promise exists for Isaac.
Therefore, you see the "genesis" of the current struggle between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

J.R.'s Genesis Chapter 16 comment on 8/29/2011, 8:50am...

Not sure if anyone caught this, but this is a scripture that has been fulfilled, and to me it seems as if its one of the oldest. It said Ishmael would be a wild man, and everyones hand would be against his, and his against everyone else. If he really was the person that the arabs trace their lineage to...then this seems to be fufilled!

RALPH M. WATERS's Genesis Chapter 16 comment on 12/31/2010, 11:27am...

ANGEL OF THE LORD - ANGELS minister to the LORD - They are mentioned in this chapter, but as in the GARDEN, an ANGEL was ministering to the LORD in speaking with ADAM and EVE.

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