DID YOU KNOW? #5

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DEPICTION OF MAIDSERVANT








Consistent Bible study has shown me that you can uncover intriguing information daily. There are Bible passages I have read many times but overlooked important details. 


I’ll be sharing these details today. Maybe some of you have missed them too.




 LIFE LESSON:

SURROGATE MAIDS USED IN BIBLE DAYS



HAGAR

GENESIS 16:1, 3

1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. 

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.

 

GENESIS  16:15

 

15 So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 





GENESIS 21:14,17-20

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.



GENESIS  21:17-19

 

17 And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. 
18 Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink. 
 



BILHAH

GENESIS 29:29

And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maid.

GENESIS 30:3-4



3 So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her.”

4 Then she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.




GENESIS 35:25

 

The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;





ZILPAH

GENESIS 30:9

When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and
gave her to Jacob as wife.







GENESIS 30:9-12

9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and 
gave her to Jacob as wife.
10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob 
a son.
11 Then Leah said, “A troop comes!”
So she called his name Gad.
12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob 
a second son.
13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed.” So she called his name Asher.


















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