“Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.””
Genesis 16:10
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- Hagar: The Runaway Slave Who Named God (Genesis 16)
Who is the angel of the LORD who found Hagar?
This is the first time "the angel of the LORD" appears in the Bible. The Hebrew malak (H4397) means messenger, yet this messenger speaks as God: "I will greatly multiply your offspring" (Genesis 16:10) is a promise only God can make. Hagar then names the LORD Himself (Genesis 16:13). The God who speaks came down the road she was running.
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God kept this promise. Genesis 25:12-18 lists Ishmael's twelve sons, each the head of a tribe, as the record that what God told Hagar came true. God had also told Abraham that Ishmael would become "the father of twelve rulers" (Genesis 17:20).
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