Genesis 16:6

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May the LORD judge between me and you.”

7The LORD’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:10The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Job 2:6The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

Proverbs 14:29He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Proverbs 29:19A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

Jeremiah 38:5Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose 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 →

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