Genesis 16:3
She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And he went in to her. But she, perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.
Cross References
Genesis 16:5And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.
Genesis 25:6And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.
Genesis 30:4And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,
Genesis 32:22And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.
Judges 19:1There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:
1 Kings 11:3And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away 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 →