Bible Verses about โhagarโ
The Bible contains 35 verses about hagar across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โHe will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."โ
โThe angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.โ
โHagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.โ
โGod heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.โ
โGet up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."โ
โGod was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.โ
โThe angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.โ
โHe said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."โ
โThe angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."โ
โThe angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."โ
โShe called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"โ
โThe child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.โ
โHe lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.โ
โSarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.โ
โSarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.โ
โHe went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.โ
โSarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."โ
โAbram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.โ
โGod opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.โ
โSarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.โ
โTherefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."โ
โFor this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.โ
โNow Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.โ
โBut 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.โ
โTherefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.โ
โGod said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.โ
โThe thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.โ
โI will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."โ
โAbraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.โ
โThe water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.โ
โShe went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.โ
โAs for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.โ
โThese things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.โ
โNow this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.โ
โThey lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.โ
