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| 1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken. |
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| 2 And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. |
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| 3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore 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, being 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 to him. |
Was 100 years old – 25 years after the covenant was made. B231
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| 6 And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me. |
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| 7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? 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 to 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 And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son--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 because of his son. |
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| 12 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: in all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee. |
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 But also 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 flask of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder--and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. |
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 was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs, |
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| 16 and she went and sat down over against him, a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold 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 from the heavens, and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is. |
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| 18 Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of 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 flask 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 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 Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest. |
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| 23 And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest. |
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| 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. |
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| 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. |
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| 26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me of it, neither have I heard of it but to-day. |
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| 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them 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 to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves? |
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| 30 And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well. |
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| 31 Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them. |
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| 32 And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines. |
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| 33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal *God. |
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| 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. |
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