9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
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But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)The casting out of Ishmael is here considered of, and resolved on. I. Ishmael himself gave the occasion by some affronts he gave to Isaac his little brother, some think on the day that Abraham made the feast for joy that Isaac was safely weaned, which the Jews say was not till he was three years old, others say five. Sarah herself was an eye-witness of the abuse: she saw the son of the Egyptian mo…
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