Hagar and the Law Regarding Concubines
For me this is exciting and a wondrous. This is the
first passage in the Law of Moses that the Lord has opened to
me that shows sin committed on the part of Abraham and then
declares the righteousness of God in the matter.
Deuteronomy 21:10-20 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into
thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive, And seest among the captives
(This seeing among
the converts – is the making of them apart of the greater household
of faith that they should be welcomed in and to partake and
break bread in the greater household.
– but if among these converts in thy seeing thou see)
a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her,
(That God has caused you to see some manner of
beauty and hast given a desire unto thee [This is God seeking
to protect such a one from the men of belial in your midst that
would seek to punish and abuse her and make a whore out of her
that she would become a byword among the people as is exactly
prescribed in the Talmud when dealing with proselytes and the
gentiles that have come to live with you. So that this is an
act of protection – and the agape here is from the Lord to do
so. With the risk here of your wife coming to irreconcilable
differences that threaten to take down the whole house – than
put her out for thy wife’s sake.)
that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
(To add to thy wife)
Genesis 16:1-3 Now Sarai
Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 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. And
Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, -- and gave her to her husband Abram to be his
wife.
Then thou shalt
thy bring her home (And make her apart of thy household) to thine house(Hold),
and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; And
she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her
(Her glory [pride],
her nails to fight and scratch with, and all of the riches and
comforts she drew her joy, pride, and satisfaction from, --
so she could not look back. So that she in effect would be a
humble defenseless shorn sheep. That thy wife might have pity
also upon her.)
and shall remain
in thine house, (Separated from you and your wife) and (As she) bewails
(All
that she has suffered loss of in the household of)
her father and her mother a full month (That she has been severed and cut off from.)
and after that thou shalt
go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. (And at that time that you have joined yourself unto her she
will also then dwell with thy wife as well.)
Genesis
16:4-5 And
he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that
she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 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.
And it shall
be, if thou have no delight in her, (In Abrahams case that because his wife Sarah – for the sake
of preserving his household Abraham cast out Hagar and her son
his firstborn son.) then
thou shalt let her go whither she
will; (As Abraham Righteously did) but thou shalt not sell her
at all for money, thou shalt not make
merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. (No dowry can be paid to you nor can you sell her – You have
taken away from her the most precious thing she has – only to
cast her aside. But in her now being released to go unto whom
she would – she is protected now as she has been divorced –
for only the commoners and those that have been so greatly humbled
among my people would take her to be their wife.)
If a man
have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, (Alluding to one that is a slave – as in Hagar)
and they have born him children, both the beloved and
the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
Then it shall be, when he maketh his
sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the
son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which
is indeed the firstborn:
Genesis 16:6-11, 15 But Abram
said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid
is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth
thee. And
when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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. And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Return
to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. And the angel
of the LORD said unto her, (He have her son the blessing of Abraham on fruitfulness that
should have gone to Isaac but were restored by the Lord unto
Jacob) I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that
it shall not be numbered for multitude. 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. -- And
Hagar (Returned
to the household of Abraham and submitted herself unto Sarah
[Who had been chastened by the Lord also for her wicked actions
against Hagar who was with her husbands child. And she)
bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which
Hagar bare, Ishmael.
But he shall
acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving
him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning
of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. (This
is declaring the sin of Abraham that he was within his rights
to cast out the bondwoman but even as Ishmael was his first
born he should have given unto his mother Hagar the child’s
double portion rather than to cast them out that they might
be a prey.)
Understand here that Ishmael had been taught everything Abraham
knew about God and Ishmael was circumcised and wore the mark
of the covenant.
Genesis 17:20-21 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: (Thy prayers for
Ishmael – that I would accept him and I have.) Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful,
and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget,
and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which
Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in
the next year.
In the purposes of God Ishmael Circumcised, first born was
as Esau was, was to have had Isaac by from him his birthright
and put upon him the Goat skin to retain the blessings of the
covenant God had given unto Abraham but because of Sarah’s rage,
God had to bypass Abraham for this even and bypass his son Isaac
because of Sarah and her selfish love of Isaac even over the
Lord caused God to have Abraham Take Isaac up a hit and to offer
him as a ransom for the Sins of Sarah and Abraham for not having
watched over her to prevent her for having so sinned against
the image and likeness of God even in an Egyptian woman Even
in Hagar
Genesis 17:26-27 In the selfsame
day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. And all the men of his
house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger,
were circumcised with him.
And as I write the Lord has spoken that in the Garden when
the woman had so grievously sinned against the Lord, had not
Adam knuckled under to her rage – when their first son would
have been brought forth in the process of time as the woman
would have also as Sarah had a selfish love over Isaac even
over the Lord that righteous Adam would have had to as Abraham
to Go the mount and their lay down his son and raise the knife
as they had done with the lamb that was given unto them to give
then an annual reprieve and as Adam would have raised the blade
God would have stopped him and there would have been a ram also
in the thicket,