Genesis 16:10
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that they will be too numerous to count.”
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9The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”
Cross References
Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I hereby bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him abundantly. He will be the father of twelve leaders of tribes, and I will make him become a great nation.
Genesis 21:16Then she went, and sat down a short distance from him, about the distance of a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not look upon the death of the child.” As she sat there across from him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
Genesis 22:15The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven
Genesis 31:11The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob.' I said, 'Here I am.'
Genesis 48:15Israel blessed Joseph, saying, 1 “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, 1 the God who has cared for me to this day, 1
Judges 2:1The angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim, and said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and have brought you to the land I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you.
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 →