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| 1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken. |
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| 2 And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. |
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| 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. |
And Abraham – Type of Jehovah. F170
Whom Sarah – Type of the Abrahamic covenant. F170
Isaac – Type of Christ. F170
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| 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. |
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| 5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. |
Was 100 years old – 25 years after the covenant was made. B231
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| 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me. |
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| 7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age. |
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| 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. |
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| 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. |
Mocking – This was the beginning of the 400 years of affliction of Abraham's seed, which ended with the exodus, Isaac at the time being 5 years old, 30 years after the covenant. R2482:3*
Typifying the manner in which fleshly Israel mocked at spiritual Israel. R2777:6, R3952:6
Typifying the manner in which the tare class mocks at the wheat class. R2778:5
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| 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son: for the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. |
Wherefore – In order to show that the Law covenant was not to have any rule over the spiritual sons of God. R1728:5
Cast out – The Law covenant was cast aside when Jesus became heir of the original promise. R4319:3
And her son – Ishmael, type of the nation of Israel. R4319:2
Tyrannical, domineering, incorrigible; at this time 13 years of age. R3952:6
Shall not be heir – The mother's nature, rights, privileges and liberties attach to the child. E105
The nation of Israel could not inherit the promised blessings because the Law brought nothing to perfection. R4319:2
With my son – Isaac, who represented The Christ, Head and Body. R4319:2, R4320:1
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| 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. |
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| 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. |
In Isaac – Illustrating the principle of election during the Patriarchal age. F170
Divine wisdom indicated beforehand that the blessing would go through Isaac. PD28/41
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| 13 And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. |
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| 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. |
Gave it unto Hagar – Type of the Law covenant. F170
And the child – Ishmael, type of natural Israel. F170
Sent her away – Typifying the divine disfavor upon the Jews. SM202:3
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| 15 And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. |
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| 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. |
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| 17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. |
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| 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great nation. |
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| 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. |
Gave the lad drink – As Ishmael was rescued from death by the water, so the nation of Israel is about to be refreshed. SM203:2; R5503:3; PD23/34
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| 20 And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. |
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| 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. |
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| 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: |
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| 23 now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
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| 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. |
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| 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. |
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| 26 And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today. |
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| 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant. |
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| 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. |
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| 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? |
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| 30 And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. |
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| 31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. |
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| 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. |
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| 33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. |
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| 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. |
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