June 28, 2020
We’re back to Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael in the readings at church. It occurred to me that things really did go full circle: Hagar, the Egyptian handmaiden, was forced to bear a child to Abraham. Later, she and the child got kicked out and would have died if not for the Lord’s intervention.
Abraham and Sarah’s great-grandson, Joseph, was bought by Ishmaelites—followers or relatives of Hagar's son Ishmael (so they were probably related to Joseph), and brought to Egypt. Eventually, the Egyptians enslaved the descendants of Abraham who were NOT descended from Hagar the Egyptian.
So it looks like Hagar got the last laugh after all.
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