Bible Study Genesis 16:6-16

After Sarai confronts Abram about Hagar, Abram tell Sarai that Hagar is her servant so she should do as she wants with her. Sarai treats her harshly, so Hagar runs away. The Angel of the Lord finds Hagar and tells her to return and submit herself to Sarai, to call her son Ishmael, and what his future will be like Hagar calls God the God who sees El-Roi and the well Beer-lahai-roi= a well of the living One who sees me. She has Ishmael. Abram is 86.

Words I looked up in Strong's Exhaustive

maid #8198 schephchah (shif-khaw)
= female bond servant or hand maid

hand #3027 yad (yawd)
=open hand

harshly, hardly (KJV) #6031 'anah
=for a wrong doing to abase, answer for, humble, chasten self

fleeing #1272 barach (baw-rakh')
= to belt, run away, flee in a hurry

mistress #1404 gebereth
= feminine of master

submit #6031 'anah
*same word that was translated as harshly above

affliction #6040 'oney (aw-nee)
= afflicted, humble, lowly, needy, poor
wild donkey #6501 pere
= wild donkey, comes from the word running wild

God #410 El
= God Almighty


my thoughts:
Abram turns the problem back on to Sarai to handle, is this because he is shirking his duty as head of the house or because he thinks that Sarai has made this problem and she should handle it?

The angel of the LORD is believed to be the pre-incarnate Jesus. He tells Hagar that she has to return and obey Sarai, but gives her hope for her future in Ishmael(which means “God hears”.

Hagar is awed with her meeting with Jesus. Calls God “God who sees”.

Sarai had her hand against Hagar and now Hagar's heir Ishmael would have his hand against Sarai's heirs.

Abram did call son by Hagar Ishmael, was this because Hagar had told him what God said or did God tell him or did Abram name him this because he thought that Ishmael was the promised one?

What these verses say about God
1. Not only is God eternal, so is Jesus who appears in the Old Testament also-- not as man, but as a being.
2. God sees
3. God hears
4. God responds
5. God delivers on His promises
what these verses tell me:
1. just because we have the authority, doesn't mean that we should abuse it
2. what we do to others often comes back to us even harsher

3. I can call upon God as my God who sees me, hears me, and answers me