7And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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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.
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-9)Here is the first mention we have in scripture of an angel’s appearance. Hagar was a type of the law, which was given by the disposition of angels; but the world to come is not put in subjection to them , Heb. 2:5. Observe, I. How the angel arrested her in her flight, Gen. 16:7. It should seem, she was making towards her own country; for she was in the way to Shur, which lay towards Egypt. It were…
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