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Abraham and Hagar
How Abraham and Hagar are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Abraham and Hagar were married.
Sarai gave her Egyptian maid Hagar to Abram as a wife, and Hagar bore him Ishmael. After Isaac was born, Abraham sent Hagar and the boy away with bread and water.
gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife
Genesis 16:3, King James Version
when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram
Genesis 16:16, King James Version
took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar
Genesis 21:14, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 16:3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 16:3
3And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 16:16
16And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 21:14
14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
King James Version