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Ishmael (son of Hagar)
Birth: Genesis 16:15
Death: Genesis 25:17 after living 137 years
1 Chronicles 1:28-31:
28. The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
29. These were their descendants: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
30. Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
31. Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.
Because Abram & Sarai had no sons, they used her maidservant, Hagar, as a concubine. Ishmael was her son.
Genesis 16:1-16:
1. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
2. so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
3. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
4. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
5. Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."
6. "Your servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
7. The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
8. And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
9. Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her."
10. The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."
11. The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
12. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
13. She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me."
14. That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
15. So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
Genesis 17:1-27 - the covenant of circumcision
Interestingly enough, the practice of circumcision began with Ishmael, not Isaac (but applied to Isaac when he was born later).
1. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.
2. I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."
3. Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
4. "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
5. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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18. And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"
19. Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
21. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."
22. When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
23. On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
24. Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
25. and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
26. Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day.
27. And every male in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.
Genesis 21:9-21:
Verses 9-21 - out of jealousy, Sarah asked that Hagar and Ishmael be sent away
verse 21 - Hagar got an Egyptian wife for Ishmael
9. But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
10. and she said to Abraham, "Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac."
11. The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.
12. But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
13. I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring."
14. Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
15. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
16. Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she thought, "I cannot watch the boy die." And as she sat there nearby, she began to sob.
17. God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18. Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
19. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
20. God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
21. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
Genesis 25:12-18 - Ishmael's sons
8. Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.
9. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
10. the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
11. After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
12. This is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Sarah's maidservant, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
13. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
14. Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
15. Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
16. These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.
17. Altogether, Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
Genesis 28:9: - Esau took a wife from a daughter of Ishmael
8. Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
9. so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
Genesis 36:2-3: - Esau has a 2nd Ishmaelite wife
2. Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite--
3. also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.