Abraham is the father of all who believe – Romans 4:16 (NLT)
Abram: High Father (Strong’s)
(God) I will make you a great nation…Abram was seventy-five – Genesis 12:2-4 (NASU)
And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth – Genesis 13:15-16 (NKJV)
But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!” – Genesis 15:2-3 (NKJV)
Sarai: My Princess (EBD, HBD, SBD)
So far, Abram and Sarai are but they
speak the not the
Sarai God and both are with the
Sarai’s first recorded words:
“The Lord has kept me from having children. – Genesis 16:2 (NIV)
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. – Psalms 84:11 (NKJV)
Hagar: Flight (EBD, ISBE, NBD, SBD)
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt…(Pharaoh) treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle…male, menservants and maidservants,
– Genesis 12:10-16
Big without big lead to
big
(v.5)
Sarai said to Abram, “It’s all your fault. For now this servant girl of mine despises me, though I myself gave her the privilege of being your wife. May the Lord judge you for doing this to me!” (v.5) (TLB)
Jesus shows up when she’s in a desert, about to hit
a in her life and feels completely (vv.7-8)
Shur: shuwr – a wall (Strong’s, EBD, ISBE) enclosure (NBD)
God doesn’t accept this attempt to fulfill His promise (v.9)
(v.12)
…he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” – Genesis 16:12 (NIV)
Then she called the name of the Lord (YHWH) who spoke to her,
“You are a God (El) who sees (ro’ iy)”; for she said, “Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?” Therefore the well was called Beer (well)-lahai (Lives)-roi (sees); behold, it is between Kadesh (holy) and Bered (hail). – Genesis 16:13-14 (NASB95)
Jehovah El Roi: The God who sees me (K&D) Looks out for me
Beer-lahai-roi: The well of the living one, who sees me (K&D)
He is the God who me and for me (v.11)
Because the Lord (YHWH) has heard (shama) your affliction. – Genesis 16:11 (NKJV)
Shama: to hear intelligently (Strong’s)
Hagar the Egyptian God’s promise and returns in (vv.15-16)
Ishmael: God hears (Easton’s) Yi-shama-el