Hagar and Ishmael
1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, Gen. 11:30; 15:2, 3had borne him no children. And she had Gen. 12:16; 21:9an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Gal. 4:24Hagar. 2 Gen. 30:3So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LordGen. 20:18has restrained me from bearing children. Please, Gen. 30:3, 9go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And Abram Gen. 3:17heeded the voice of Sarai. 3 Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram Gen. 12:4, 5had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan. 4 So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became 1 Sam. 1:6, 7; (Prov. 30:21, 23)despised in her eyes.
15 So Gal. 4:22Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.