“ And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. ”
- 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 pri...
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...
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
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 off...
BIRTH OF ISHMAEL Genesis 16:1-16 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 o...
Abram's Son Ishmael Genesis 16:1-16 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...
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, the...
REFLECTIONS. What awful effects have been in all ages reduced by unlawful connections! See, how this illicit marriage, in defiance of the divine law, involved all the parties concerned in it in trou...
And Abram [was] eighty years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. Which is easily reckoned, for he was seventy five years of age when he left Haran, Genesis 12:4 ; and he had been ten years in Ca...
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 S...
The Birth of Ishmael. B. C. 1911. 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his...
No text from Poole on this verse. 1910
‘And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. And Abram was eighty six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.' The end result of Sarai's planning...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 16:15-16 THE CONVICTION OF A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE: PRACTICAL EFFECTS I. That we enter again the paths of duty. The impression of this special visitati...
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 consi...
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 a creature angel, fo...
The Return of Hagar and the Birth of Ishmael
Genesis 16:16