Continuing God’s predestination of making Abraham the father of many nations. Two nations are in Rebecca’s womb.

No. Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests: banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael (Qur ... vigorous and give birth before the midwives ...

However, jealousy soon sets in after Hagar gives birth to Ishmael (from whom the prophet Mohammed will descend). Then a miracle happens. Though well past her childbearing years, Sarah and Abraham ...

After the birth of Ishmael, God corrects Abraham’s assumptions ... that challenge into their own hands through the agency of Hagar. But this passage makes clear: It is God who is the “Lord ...

even while telling Hagar to go back to Sarai. She does and gives birth to Abraham’s first boy: Ishmael. What can we learn from this episode? Well, the whole situation is the result of man taking ...

However, when God fulfilled His promise and Sarah gave birth to Isaac, family tensions erupted such that Abraham sent Hagar away with their son Ishmael with just some water and food (21:–21).

Prophet Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests: banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael ... vigorous and give birth before the midwives ...

19.4 x 27.6 cm. (7.6 x 10.9 in.) thence by inheritance to his sister, Anne Bouverie (d. 1757), thence by inheritance to her husband, John Hervey (d. 1764), thence by descent to his son, Christopher ...

The Hebrew for “begot” literally means “gave birth” to indicate a ... Thus one midrash imagines Sarah praying with Abraham, “O that God might … grant us offspring, that we have no need of Hagar’s ...