Genesis 16:11-13

The Voice

The descendants from Hagar are included in the promise given to Abram that his family will be so large that he will not be able to count them.

¹¹    Look, you are pregnant,
        and you’re going to have a son.
    I want you to call him Ishmael
        because the Eternal One has heard your anguished cries.
¹²    Just to warn you, though:
    Ishmael, your son, is going to be a wild and rowdy man;
        he’ll put his fist in every face,
    And everyone will turn against him,
        and he will live at odds with all of his relatives.

¹³As a result of this encounter, Hagar decided to give the Eternal One who had spoken to her a special name because He had seen her in her misery.

Hagar: I’m going to call You the God of Seeing^[a] because in this place I have seen the One who watches over me.

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