Genesis 16:10
Moreover the messenger of the Lord said to her, “I will make your descendants so many that they can not be numbered because they are so numerous.”
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Genesis 17:20However I have heard you regarding Ishmael: I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and his descendants exceedingly many. Twelve princes he will father, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:16and went a short distance away and sat down and said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” So she sat there and wept.
Genesis 22:15He named the place “The Lord will provide” – and even today people say, “The Lord will provide on his mountain.”
Genesis 31:11The messenger of God said to me in a dream, ‘Jacob!’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
Genesis 48:15He then blessed Joseph, saying, “The God whom my forefathers Abraham and Isaac revered and served, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long unto this day,
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 →