LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY, 2/6/14

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GENESIS 16:3-4, 10-12, 15-16



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 had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

 4 So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived.



10 Then the Angel of the Lord said to her (Hagar), “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.”

11 And the Angel of the Lord said to her:“Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael, Because the Lord has heard your affliction.
12 He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”


15 So Hagar 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.



GENESIS  17: 20-21, 25-26


20  And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

21  But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.”


25  And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.  
26 That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;



GENESIS 21: 14, 20-21



14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.



20 So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

21 He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.


PAINTING, HAGAR & ISHMAEL IN THE DESERT

BY GRIGORY UGRYUMOV,  C. 1785 




 




















GENESIS 25:10-12

10  Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.”

11  And the Angel of the Lord said to her:“Behold, you are with child And you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, Because the Lord has heard your affliction.


GENESIS 25: 12-18

12 Now this is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
 13 And these were the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
 15 Hadar,[a] Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16 These were the sons of Ishmael and these were their names, by their towns and their settlements, twelve princes according to their nations.
17 These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
 18 (They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.



HISTORICAL CONTEXT:


The Lord had a covenant with Abraham.  
He told him that he would multiply his
generation. The generation was supposed
to start with the son Abraham had with his
wife Sarah.  Sarah was barren for many years
and didn’t wait for the covenant to be fulfilled. 
 Ten years passed before Sarah and Abraham
had their son covenant child, Isaac.


Abraham sent Hagar and his son Ishmael away
from his home.  They lived in Beersheba, Israel 
and eventually settled in Paran, Egypt. The Lord blessed Hagar and Ishmael.  He was proficient in
archery.  He married an Egyptian woman and had
twelve sons and one daughter.  His sons became
tribal chiefs. The Bible book of Genesis 17 and 21 
shows that Abraham still had contact with Ishmael.  He circumcised Ishmael when was age 13. Ishmael
 and his brother Isaac buried Abraham in a cave.
Ishmael lived to age 137. Ishmael is mentioned in 
the Quran and in Muslim literature.


LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY
THE LIFE OF ISHMAEL


My Bible Study of the life of Ishmael showed me 
that the Blended Family is not a new concept. It
has existed since Biblical times. The scriptures 
show that Abraham and Hagar followed the Lord’s instructions whenever  trouble happened in their
 families.  I should take heed to the blessings these two people received because they had faith in the
Lord and His Word.               





 

















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