Who was the girl Hagar, and what did she do ?
2006-11-06 14:39:59 · 9 answers · asked by ldp999000 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
She was the maid of Abraham's wife and Abrahams concubine. she was the mother of Ishmael
2006-11-06 14:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by Piper 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was married to Sarah, but Sarah could not have any children to bare unto Abraham, So Sarah talked with her husband and told him to take her servant Hagar so she could bare them a child, Hagar born Ishmael. Abraham complied. However later Sarah did get pregnant, therefore since she now had a natural son, one that was of her blood not Hagar's blood, she knew that Ishmael, being the first born would inherit all, Sarah did not want Ishmael to inherit, but wanted her son to inherit all, So Sarah convinced Abraham, that it was the right thing to do, by sending Hagar and Ishmael away.
Hagar and Ishmael, surely felt jipped by this, and all the generations that followed Ishmael, desired to have the land Israel, because they feel it was rightfully theirs being the firstborn of Abraham, Ishmaels decendants are what we call Muslims today. The Muslims even to this very day feel the land of Israel is rightfully there land, that they should have inherited it, being the firstborn of Abraham, But Isaac and his decendants were given the land instead.
Therefore the conflict between the Jews and the Muslims, started with Hagar and her son.
In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ
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2006-11-06 22:51:48 · answer #2 · answered by DiscipleDave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hagar was Sarah's hand maiden. She followed Sarah's orders and conceived Ishmael with Abraham, Sarah's husband in order to provide a child for Sarah. (Abraham and Sarah got a bit too impatient for the promised son and tried to do things their way.) Hagar had to pay the price for their impatience, although she did become "despised" in Sarah's sight. Sarah treated Hagar harshly and Hagar fled,God sent an angel of the Lord to Hagar and told her to return to Sarah.
(Sarah and Abraham at this point were called Sari and Abram)
2006-11-06 22:49:04 · answer #3 · answered by redeemed 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hagar was Abraham's concubine, and she was the maid of Abraham's wife Sarah. She gave birth to the father of the Arabs, Ishmael.
2006-11-06 22:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hagar was the house maid of Abraham and his wife Sarah. Abraham had a fling with her and a son names Ishmael resulted and he was the father of the ungodly nations (Islam) whilst Abraham's' other son with his wife Sarah, Isaac' was through Abraham, the father of the Godly nations as through the lineage of Ishmael evolved Christ.
2006-11-06 22:48:46 · answer #5 · answered by mandbturner3699 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hagar was moses' wife's 'servant'. Sara [the wife] was infertile and so Sara 'allowed' Hagar and moses conceive a baby--this was ok then. Hagar's son was Ishmael, who was a great person in the Bible
2006-11-06 22:46:49 · answer #6 · answered by madai_17 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abraham and Sarah's servant,. She was the mother of Ishmael-Abraham's work of the flesh! :)
2006-11-06 22:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Gail R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read galatians verse 4
2006-11-06 22:42:11 · answer #8 · answered by machine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I am not Mistaken, the Arab Nation came from her child.
2006-11-06 22:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋