Genesis 16:6
“Listen, she's your slave!” Abram replied. “You can do whatever you want to her.” Sarai treated Hagar so badly that she ran away.
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7The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert—the spring on the road to Shur.
Cross References
Genesis 24:10Then the servant arranged for ten of his master's camels to carry all kinds of valuable gifts from Abraham and left for the town of Nahor in Aram-naharaim.
Job 2:6So the Lord said to Satan, “Very well, you have the power to do whatever you want to him, but don't kill him.”
Proverbs 14:29If you're slow to get angry, you're very wise; but if you have a short fuse you glorify stupidity.
Proverbs 15:17Better a dinner of vegetables where there's love than eating meat with hatred.
Proverbs 29:19A servant can't be disciplined by words alone; though they understand, they don't follow what they're told.
Jeremiah 38:5“Well, you can do whatever you want to him,” King Zedekiah replied. “I can't stop you.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:5-7
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. We have here the immediate bad… Read the whole commentary →