Hagar and Ishmael (Biblical Stories Explained) FYTube

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1. 🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

   00:54 🌟 God assures Abram that he will have a child of his own flesh and blood, with descendants as numerous as the stars.
   02:03 😔 Sarai, unable to conceive, offers her Egyptian slave, Hagar, to Abram to bear a child in her place.
   03:38 🤔 Sarai's compromise with Hagar to have a child through her showcases her desperation for a family.
   05:48 💔 Abram accepts Sarai's offer to sleep with Hagar, compromising the sanctity of marriage.
   08:36 🌍 Hagar, mistreated by Sarai, flees into the desert, where she encounters an angel of the Lord.
   09:48 🙏 The angel encourages Hagar to return, promising numerous descendants and protection.
   11:15 💪 Hagar's resilience and acquiescence in the face of adversity serve as a moral lesson in the story.
   14:31 🙌 God intervenes, assuring Abraham that it's best to send away Hagar and Ishmael for Isaac's sake.
   16:48 🌊 God hears Ishmael's cry in the desert, provides water, and assures Hagar of making Ishmael a great nation.
   18:09 🏹 Ishmael grows up to become an archer, living a long life with God's presence and eventually having many sons.

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2. Are you Jewish?
   If not why should it interest or concern you?

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3. I seen many moslem comment. Btw i am also a moslem. Its from christian view, from their believe, we should not comment anything bad. Just respect other believe.

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4. Yeah, sorry but I don't buy this interpretation of this very important moment in human history at all. I've had this story rattling around in my head for decades now, having been raised Christian and taught about it as a child. Something never really sat right with me, especially concerning the personal motivations of the 3 main people involved at the beginning of the story. I think Occam's Razor is a great device to use here.

   I don't believe that Sarah ever wanted Abraham to have a baby with her own husband. Why would she if she knew that would lower her social standing in that household?

   I think the more likely situation was, Abraham did what many men in powerful positions have done since the beginning of time, and that's have sex with everything in sight because they can. It was true thousands of years ago and it's still true today. I don't care how ancient men interpreted this whole situation. Of course they're going to place most of the blame on whatever woman is within a 20 mile radius of the man that actually caused the problem in the first place. That's what they do throughout the Bible, why would this case be any different?

   So, anyway. Abraham was also the one to have the greatest strategic incentive to want to sleep with Hagar, beyond his own lust: he needed an heir and this much younger servant girl he had easy access to was an almost guaranteed solution to his problem. So he did just that and the result was Ishmael.

   Another result was his wife being understandably angry that he'd had a baby by another woman. But because she was a woman living in ancient times, she couldn't exactly take it out on her husband and chose to take it out on the poor servant girl instead. Very petty of her but it makes a whole lot more sense than "oh, Sarah suddenly realized that her own plan backfired on her because women be crazy and irrational".

   So, for Hagar's part, that "haughty" behavior these ancient men accuse her of, are likely talking about this pregnant women's inability to completely mask her own anger at being raped and forced to have a baby with a man in his 80s, while also knowing she's never going to have full rights to her own child. Everyone knows pregnant women are extremely hormonal and have a lot less control over their emotions in that state. So under the strain of pregnancy and dealing with her mistress's outright hatred of her at this point, she probably IS being less than submissive and agreeable than a servant girl is expected to be. Maybe she even talks back to Sarah at some point and that gets her cast out to the desert.

   Anyway, all this to say, none of this would have likely happened in the first place if Abraham had been patient and heeded what God had told him in the first place, instead of having sex with a poor servant girl who had no say in the matter.

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5. Ismael was a baby, the ONLY SON, when Abraham left his 2nd wife Hagar, in the Desert of Beersheba. Read Old Testament again.

   Incidently, the Desert of Beersheba is in SaudiArabia…more likely at a place called Mecca today.

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