Genesis 16:8
He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
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9The LORD’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
Cross References
Genesis 4:10The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 16:4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Judges 19:17He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
1 Kings 19:9He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, the LORD’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Ecclesiastes 10:4If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offences to rest.
Ephesians 6:5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
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 →