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Thursday, November 6 2008
Hagar was the Egyptian "handmaid" of Abraham's wife Sarah (see Abram and Sarai). When Sarah found herself not having children (yet - she later had Isaac), she arranged to have a child through Hagar - a plan that before long produced extreme resentment between the two women. Hagar fled into the wilderness with her unborn child, Ishmael, apparently toward Egypt, but the LORD met her in the desert and told her to return to Abraham. The place where the LORD appeared to her was a well that was thereafter named Beerlahairoi, which means well of the Living One who sees me, or well of the visible God.
"And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi"
Hagar would in later years get a wife for Ishmael from her native land Egypt ("21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt" Genesis 21:20-21 KJV), but until then, she obeyed the LORD and returned to Abraham.
"16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. 16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee.
And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. 16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go?
And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram." (Genesis 16:1-16 KJV)
Fact Finder: How does the historical reality of the verses quoted above explain that, although Abraham wasn't a Jew, he is a key ancestor of the Israelite people, including the tribe of Judah ("Jew" is an abbreviation of "Judah") i.e. through his son Isaac? As well, how does it explain how Abraham was also an ancestor of many of the Arab people i.e. through his son Ishmael?
See Abraham Wasn't A Jew and Israel's Iraqi Roots
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This Day In History, November 6
1429: Henry VI was crowned king of England, 7 years after acceding to the throne at age 8 months.
1572: A supernova was observed in the constellation Cassiopeia.
1813: Mexico was declared independent of Spain.
1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th U.S. President.
1861: Jefferson Davis was elected as Confederate President.
1862: A New York to San Francisco direct telegraphic link was established.
1913: Mohandas Ghandi was arrested in South Africa for leading a Indian miners march.
1917: During the First World War, the 5-month third Battle of Ypres ended when Canadian and Australian troops took Passchendaele. The advance of 5 miles cost 240,000 men.
1917: The beginning of the "October Revolution" by the Bolsheviks (October 25 according to the then-used Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
1918: The Republic of Poland was proclaimed.
1923: During the time of the out of control inflation in Germany, a single loaf of bread sold for over 100 billion Marks.
1932: In German elections, the Nazis lost 34 seats and 2,000,000 votes but still remained the largest party in the Reichstag with 196 seats.
1944: Walter Edward Guinness, first Lord Moyne, British Minister for Middle East Affairs, owner of the Guinness beverage company, was murdered by radical members of the Zionist "Stern Gang," named after its leader Avrahan Stern. With few exceptions, the Zionist community was horror-stricken by the assassination. The 2 youths who committed the crime were placed on trial in Cairo in January 1945, and swiftly found guilty and hanged.
1962: Richard Nixon told the press that they wouldn't have him "to kick around anymore." He was elected President exactly 6 years later.
1991: The last of the 751 oil-well fires that had been started by retreating Iraqi troops in Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War was extinguished.
