Genesis 16:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:5-6
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. …
1 Peter 2:18-25
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. …
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Ephesians 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Titus 2:9
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

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Commentary

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…