Season 4 Episode 5 – Genesis 16: Somebody’s Watching Me!

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Intro - 1:11

Jasmine’s Tea! - 4:08

A’ight So Boom! -  8:14

Read Genesis 16 1-2 - 12:13

• Sarai’s Circumstance

• Because she had no children

• She had a female servant Abram falls asleep

• Presents the plan to Abram

• The LORD has prevented me (back to Eve)

• My servant is available

• I shall obtain children by her

• Abram Listened to the voice of Sarai

Read Genesis 16 3-6 - 31:24

• Ten years have passed with him living in Canaan (from the Covenant)

That barrenness was grounds for a divorce after a ten-year period is a rabbinic explanation for Sarai’s actions (Gen. Rab. 45.3). K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 185.

• Sarai took and gave her servant

• To Abram her husband as a wife

• She conceived

• Hagar looked with contempt on her mistress

• Sarai felt a way

• Blamed Abram

• She looked on me with contempt

• May the LORD judge between you and me

• Abram wipes his hands of Hagar

• She is your servant (Abram’s wife)

• She is in your power

• Do to you as you please

• She dealt harshly with hagar

• Hagar Fled from her (Sarai)

Read Genesis 16 7-10 - 43:20

• Angel of the LORD ‘finds’ Hagar

• She is by a spring

• She is in the wilderness

• On the way to Shur

• The Angel of the LORD speaks to Hagar

• Note how the author identifies her

• Asks questions He know the answer to

• She tells the LORD what is going on

• The Angel of the LORD replies

• Go Back?!

• I will multiply your offspring

• Your are pregnant

• Your child will be a son

• You will name him Ishmael (and tells her why)

• What he will be

• A wild donkey of a man

• His hand against everyone (does not play well with others)

• Dwell over against all his kinsmen

Read Genesis 16 11-12 - 59:29

• The Angel of the LORD (Christophony)

• Speaks to Hagar

• About herself

• You are pregnant

• You will Bear a son 

• About her son’s name

• What the child’s name is

• Why the child is to be named that

• Her son’s relationship

• Wild Donkey of a man

• Hand against everyone

•  Everyone’s hand against him

• Dwell over and above his kinsmen

Read Genesis 16 13-16 - 1:03:26

• Hagar worships the LORD

• The LORD sees her 

• She has seen the Angel of the LORD 

• Names the well Beer-lahai-roi

The site became known as Beer Lahai Roi, “the well of the Living (One) who sees me” K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 192.

• Hagar births Abram’s Son

• Abram is 86 years old (Not too old for children)

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