Genesis 16:3
she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.
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4And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.
Cross References
Genesis 16:5And Sarai said to Abram: “You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”
Genesis 25:6But to the sons of the concubines he gave generous gifts, and he separated them from his son Isaac, while he still lived, toward the eastern region.
Genesis 30:4And she gave him Bilhah in marriage.
Genesis 32:22And when he had arisen early, he took his two wives, and the same number of handmaids, with his eleven sons, and he crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
Judges 19:1There was a certain man, a Levite, living beside mount Ephraim, who took a wife from Bethlehem of Judah.
1 Kings 11:3And for him, there were seven hundred wives, as if they were queens, and three hundred concubines. And the women turned aside his heart.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:2-4
Abram, Sarai, and Hagar. ( b. c. 1911.) 1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. We… Read the whole commentary →