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Hagar and Ishmael
Hagar was Sarah's Egyptian maidservant who bore Abraham his son Ishmael, Abraham's firstborn. Their story appears in Genesis 16, 21, and 25, and Paul uses the account allegorically in Galatians 4.
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- NebaiothPeople
Nebaioth was the firstborn son of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. His sister became the wife of Esau, and in the Book of Isaiah his name designates the tribe descended from him.
- BeershebaBible
Beersheba was a town at the southern edge of the land of Judah, in the northern Negev. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dug wells and worshiped God there, and the expression "from Dan to Beersheba" marks the southern boundary of Israel.
- Genesis 22Bible
Genesis 22 recounts how Abraham, at God's command, sets out to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain in the land of Moriah. He is stopped, offers a ram in Isaac's place, and receives a renewed promise of blessing. The chapter ends with a list of Nahor's descendants.
- IsaacPeople
Isaac is a patriarch in the Book of Genesis, the son of promise born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age. He is best known for nearly being offered as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, and he was the father of Jacob and Esau.
- Genesis 16Bible
Genesis 16 recounts how the childless Sarai gave her maidservant Hagar to Abram, leading to the birth of Ishmael. At its center, Hagar flees into the wilderness, meets the angel of the LORD beside a spring, and confesses Him as "Thou God seest me," the God who sees.
- Genesis 21Bible
Genesis 21 recounts the birth of Isaac in fulfillment of God's promise, the sending away of Hagar and her son and their rescue in the wilderness, and Abraham's covenant with Abimelech at Beersheba.
- Galatians 4Bible
The fourth chapter of Galatians, in which Paul uses the analogy of an underage heir who differs nothing from a servant and the allegory of Hagar and Sarah to argue that believers are not servants under the law but sons of God who inherit the promise.
- Galatians 5Bible
Galatians 5 is the chapter in which Paul urges believers to stand fast in the liberty they have in Christ, warns against seeking justification through circumcision, and calls them to use that freedom to serve one another in love, contrasting the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit.
- WildernessBible
The wilderness is arid land on which people find it difficult to settle and farm. In the Bible it is the place where Israel spent forty years after the Exodus, and it is portrayed as a setting of testing, of God's provision, and of new beginnings.
- AngelBible
In the Bible, an angel is a spiritual being who serves God and conveys His will. The Hebrew mal'akh and the Greek angelos both mean "one who is sent," that is, a messenger.
- Angel of the LordBible
The Angel of the Lord is an Old Testament term for a being sent by God who appears to people and delivers his word. Because the angel sometimes speaks as though he were God himself, interpreters disagree about the angel's identity.
- EgyptBible
Egypt is the ancient nation in the Nile River valley of northeastern Africa. It is the setting of the Joseph narrative and the Exodus, and in Scripture it serves as a place symbolizing both bondage and deliverance.