Daily Discovery Bible Study

7 The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert—the spring on the road to Shur.

8 He asked her, “Hagar, Sarai's slave—where have you come from, and where are you going?”

“I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

9 “Go back to your mistress and do what she tells you,” the angel of the Lord told her.10 Then he continued, “I will give you many, many descendants—in fact they'll be so many they can't be counted.”11 The angel of the Lord went on to tell her: “Listen! You're pregnant, and you will have a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard how you've suffered.12 He'll be a wild donkey kind of man—he will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him. He will forever be fighting with his relatives.”

13 From then on Hagar called the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” because she said, “Here I saw the one who sees me.”14 That's why the well is called “the Well of the Living One who Sees Me.” It's still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16: 7-14