Genesis 16:10
I will give you very many grandchildren's grandchildren and those who come after them, you won't be able to count [lit 'name'] them, they will be very many.
Nyangumarta (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
9He said to her, “Return to your mistress, obey her.
Cross References
Genesis 17:20You asked me to do good to Ishmael. Yes, I heard you. I will do good to him also, I will give him many people. He will have 12 sons. They will become important bosses. Their descendants will become many.
Genesis 21:16She went a little way off, she sat down. She said to herself, “Truly my son will soon die. I don't want to see that.” She was really crying for the child.
Genesis 22:15Again God called to Abraham from the sky.
Genesis 31:11In that dream God spoke to me, 'Jacob!' 'Yes, what?'
Matthew Henry on Genesis 16:8-10
7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. Here is the first mention we have in scripture of an angel's appearance. Hagar was a type of the law, which was given by the disposition of angels; but the world… Read the whole commentary →